Unseen, But Known
- Words:
- Ray Palmer
- Music:
- J. B. Dykes
Sheet music
- 1Jesus, these eyes have never seenThat radiant form of Thine;The veil of sense hangs dark betweenThy blessed face and mine.I see Thee not, I hear Thee not,Yet Thou art oft with me;And earth has ne’er so dear a spot,As where I meet with Thee.
- 2Like some bright dream that comes unsought,When slumbers o’er me roll,Thine image ever fills my tho’t,And charms my ravished soul.Yet tho’ I have not seen, and stillMust rest in faith alone,I love Thee, dearest Lord, and will,Unseen, but not unknown.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1858, the words are in 245 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.