world's Having the fair seen beauty

B233 C308 CB405 E405 G405 K308 R288 S178 Si405 T405
1
be lose knew seen blind Presence
  And I the more,
Lest before. once loving fair Having would the beauty,
  Lord, world's Delight I I
 
seen more,
Lest the loving fair would the lose Delight knew blind world's I I I Having once Presence
  And be before. beauty,
Lord,
2
star will paradise,
But here moonlight,
  I can and His mercy
  For and Dawn see while suffice. sunset, blindness on earth my in
3
look brightly but for glory
  Shineth grace,
While thorn, my on the face. more my no His I would be delivered
  From within veil
4
the see ridiculed deep face. faith, night, trace;
He His dark by not sight, glorious hated,
  Yet I His beauty
  I may was In and
5
Sun glory and surpassing,
  Clouds the from Way Milky His all thorn-crowned moonlight and o'erspread,
Is head. far transcending
  Shining

hymn born author, its been written shortly was blind, sight. who gained after had her This