Where is my power to watch and pray

Verse 1
Where is my power to watch and pray, (Matt. 26:41, Mark 13:33, Mark 14:38, Luke 21:36)
And live for God alone?
The morning-cloud is past away, (Hosea 13:3)
And all my goodness gone: (Hosea 6:4)
I sink again to Idols join’d,
And let my God depart,
And not one good desire I find
In this poor, desperate heart. (Isa. 64:6, Rom. 7:18)

Verse 2
What can I do, but lay me down
In darkness, sin, and shame?
Beneath my Saviour’s angry frown,
Beneath his feet I am:
Left to myself, I never more
One good desire shall feel, (Rom. 7:18)
Unless the sinner He restore,
And save, because He will. (Rom. 9:15-16)

Verse 3
But if for me his bowels plead, (Hosea 11:8)
My soul he yet shall raise,
The fulness of his power to spread
The freeness of his grace:
Fixt by the presence of his love
The morning cloud shall stay
Or only pass away t’ improve
Into the perfect day. (Prov. 4:18)

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Your goodness is as a morning cloud.’—[Hosea] 6:4.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 77.
Publishing: Public Domain