Wondring he must express
His pious, humble fear:
Miraculous is his success,
And shows that God is near:
But stranger far the draught,
And made him more aghast,
Fisher of men, when Peter caught
Three thousand at a cast.
Wondring he must express
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He was astonished at the draught of fishes.’—[Luke 5,] v. 9.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 92.
Publishing: Public Domain