The ground of every heart is known

The ground of every heart is known
With every thought, to Him alone
Who doth in secret see:
O may I always bear in mind,
The Eye which looks thro’ all mankind
Is now intent on me!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘She said, Yea, for so much.’—[Acts 5,] v. 8.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 299.
Publishing: Public Domain