Three days he groans deprived of sight

Verse 1
Three days he groans, depriv’d of sight,
And struggling in the Spirit’s throes!
The shade of that exterior night
The blindness of his nature shows,
The state his soul had long been in,
The night of unbelief within.

Verse 2
Three days he bears th’ Egyptian load,
T’ impress him with a deeper sense
Of Christ the persecuted God
Arm’d with Divine Omnipotence,
His thoughts from outward things t’ avert,
And turn them on his wretched heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He was three days without sight.’—[Acts 9,] v. 9.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 235.
Publishing: Public Domain