Lord, I was blind! I could not see

Lord, I was blind! I could not see. William Tidd Matson* (1833-1899). First published in Matson’s eccentric poem The Inner Life (1866), and then in Henry Allon*’s Supplemental Hymns (1868), with the title ‘Christ, the life of men’. In Britain it has continued to be very popular with Free Church hymnbook compilers, sometimes with minor alterations, as in HP and RS; it is also found in the Song Book of the Salvation Army (1953 and 1986 editions). There is also a Jubilate Hymns* version. It is unusual, for a hymn, in being written with an ABBA rhyme: Lord, I was blind! I could not see  In thy marred visage any grace;  But now the beauty of Thy faceIn radiant vision dawns on me. Lord, I was...