Through hope of perfect love delayed

Verse 1
Thro’ hope of perfect love delay’d
Sick of desire my heart is made,
And cannot cannot rest,
’Till thou, the pard’ning God, impress
In true substantial holiness
Thine image on my breast.

Verse 2
No longer, dearest Lord, defer,
But now the second time appear,
To save my soul again,
Come Father, Son, and Spirit come,
And in thy meanest earthly home
Eternally remain.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.”—[Prov.] xiii. 12. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 345.
Publishing: Public Domain