Text: | A Clean Heart |
Author: | Rev. Walter C. Smith |
Tune: | [One thing I of the Lord desire] |
Composer: | Fred H. Byshe |
1 One thing I of the Lord desire,
For all my paths have miry been,
Be it by water or by fire,
O make me clean, O make me clean.
Refrain:
So wash me thou, without, within,
Or purge with fire, If that must be,
No matter how, if only sin die out in me,
die out in me.
2 If clearer vision thou impart,
Grateful and glad my soul shall be;
But yet to have a purer heart,
Is more to me, Is more to me. [Refrain]
3 Yea, only as this heart is clean
May larger vision yet be mine,
For mirrored in Thy life are seen
The things divine, The things divine. [Refrain]
4 I watch to shun the miry way,
And stanch the springs of guilty thought,
But watch and struggle as I may,
Pure I am not, Pure I am not. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | One thing I of the Lord desire |
Title: | A Clean Heart |
Author: | Rev. Walter C. Smith |
Refrain First Line: | So wash me Thou, without, within |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1908 |
Topic: | Invitation and Repentance; Special Selections: Solos |
Notes: | Public Domain. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [One thing I of the Lord desire] |
Composer: | Fred H. Byshe |
Key: | B♭ Major |
Notes: | Public Domain. |