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- O for a closer walk with God
- .i William Cowper
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- O for a closer walk with God,
- a calm and heavenly frame,
- a light to shine upon the road
- that leads me to the Lamb.
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- Where is the blessedness I knew
- when I first saw the Lord?
- Where is that
- soul-refreshing view
- of Jesus and His word?
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- What peaceful hours
- I once enjoyed!
- how sweet their memory still!
- But they have left an aching void
- the world can never fill.
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- Return, O holy Dove! return,
- sweet messenger of rest!
- I hate the sins
- that made Thee mourn,
- and drove Thee from my breast.
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- The dearest idol I have known,
- whate'er that idol be,
- help me to tear it
- from Thy throne,
- and worship only Thee.
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- So shall my walk
- be close with God,
- calm and serene my frame;
- so purer light shall mark the road
- that leads me to the Lamb.
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- ~