Thy kingdom, Lord, I fain would see

Verse 1
Thy kingdom, Lord, I fain would see:
O carry up my soul with Thee
Above my body raise,
From earth’s tumultuous scenes remove,
Bear to the holy mount above,
And then unveil thy face.

Verse 2
Thou only by thy prayer and blood
Canst bring me to the smiling God,
Reveal my sins forgiven,
And bless me with that rapt’rous Sight
Which makes the saints’ supreme delight
Which makes an heaven of heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.’—[Luke 9,] v. 28.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 183.
Publishing: Public Domain