We still among the poor may find

Verse 1
We still among the poor may find
A soul to sudden sight restor’d,
A sinner now no longer blind
A generous witness for his Lord,
Who speaks, and simply perseveres,
And neither man nor devil fears.

Verse 2
Born blind I was, and bred in sin,
Bound, like the fiends, in chains of night:
But Thou hast shone my heart within,
Surrounded with stupendous light;
And clearly, Lord, my Way I see,
My End, my present Heaven in Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘That he is a sinner I know not: one thing I know, that I was blind, and now see.’—[John 9,] v. 25." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 446.
Publishing: Public Domain