With glorious clouds encompassed round
With glorious clouds encompassed round. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
First published in Hymns for the Use of Families, and on Various Occasions (Bristol, 1767) in eight 4-line stanzas:
With glorious clouds incompast round Whom angels dimly see, Will the Unsearchable be found, Or God appear to me?
Will He forsake his throne above, Himself to worms impart? Answer thou Man of grief and love, And speak into my heart.
In manifested love explain Thy wonderful design, What meant the suffering Son of man, The streaming blood divine?
Didst thou not in our flesh appear, And live and die below, That I may now perceive thee near, And my Redeemer know?
Come then, and to my soul...
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