“He answered and said, Whether he
be a sinner or no, I know not: one
thing I know, that, whereas I was blind,
“Now I see!” but not the parting
Of the melting earth and sky,
Not a vision dread and startling,
Forcing one despairing cry;
But I see the solemn saying,
All have sinned, and all must die;
Holy precepts disobeying,
Guilty all the world must lie;
Bending, silenced, to the dust,
“Now I see” that God is just.
“Now I see!” but not the glory,
Not the face of Him I love,
Not the full and burning story
Of the mysteries above;
But I see what God has spoken,
How His well-beloved Son
Kept the laws which man had broken,
Died for sins which man had done;
Dying, rising, throned above!
“Now I see!” that God is love.