Thou to whom all hearts are known

Verse 1
Thou to whom all hearts are known,
Attend the cry of mine,
Hear in me thy Spirit’s groan
For purity divine:
Languishing for my remove,
I wait thine image to retrieve;
Fill me, Jesus, with thy love,
And to Thyself receive.

Verse 2
Destitute of holiness,
I am not like my Lord,
Am not ready to possess
The saints’ immense reward;
No; my God I cannot see,
Unless, before I hence depart,
Thou implant thyself in me
And make me pure in heart.

Verse 3
Partner of thy nature then,
And in thine image found,
Saviour, call me up to reign
With life immortal crown’d,
With thy glorious presence blest
In speechless extacies to gaze,
Folded in thy arms to rest,
And breathe eternal praise.

Hymnal/Album: This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Preparation for Death.” 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 1977/578, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 368.
Publishing: Public Domain