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Text:O, for a closer walk with God!
Author:Wm. Cowper
Tune:MANOAH
Composer:Francis J. Haydn

581. O, for a closer walk with God!

1 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.

2 Return, O holy Dove! return,
Sweet Messenger of rest;
I hate the sins that made thee mourn,
And drove thee from my breast.

3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.

4 The dearest idol I have known,
Whate'er that idol be,
Help me to tear it from thy throne,
And worship only thee.

5 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.

Text Information
First Line: O, for a closer walk with God!
Author: Wm. Cowper
Publication Date: 1886
Topic: The Christian: Unfaithfulness Lamented
Tune Information
Name: MANOAH
Composer: Francis J. Haydn
Meter: C. M.
Key: A♭ Major
Notes: Alternate tunes: #546, 179, or 446.



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