Light of the world, Thy beams I bless. This, in the 1904 ed. of The Methodist Hymn Book, No. 464, is composed of stanzas i., ii. from C. Wesley's "Are there not in the labourer's day" (p. 76, ii.), and sts. iii.-v. from his "But can it be that I should prove," in Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1749. (Poetical Works, 1868-72, iv., 479.) [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)