The living water of thy grace

Verse 1
The living water of thy grace,
On me, indulgent Lord, bestow,
To quench my thirst of happiness,
Vouchsafe that taste of heaven below:
When of thy love I freely take,
My wants are all in one supplied,
When in thy likeness I awake,
My soul is fill’d, and satisfied.

Verse 2
My eager thirst of creature-bliss,
My earthly vain pursuits are o’re,
The Lord my peace and Portion is,
Injoying Christ, I ask no more;
I drink the river from above,
The Spirit’s pure, pellucid stream,
The Fount himself, the Life, the Love,
And all the joys of heaven in Him.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst.’—[John 4,] v. 14." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 226-27.
Publishing: Public Domain