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Text:A Closer Walk
Author:Cowper
Tune:MANOAH
Composer:Haydn

160. A Closer Walk

1 O, for a closer walk with God!
A calm and heav'nly 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 mem'ry 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.

Text Information
First Line: O, for a closer walk with God!
Title: A Closer Walk
Author: Cowper
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: Living His Life: Nearer to God
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: MANOAH
Composer: Haydn
Meter: C. M.
Key: A♭ Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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