Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Nearer my God to thee
Topic: The New Life/Submission and Deliverance
Writer: <no first name given> Adams
Composer:
Meter: 6s and 4s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 928
Page Number: 552, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNearer my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me;
Still all my song shall be--
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
Though like the wanderer
Daylight all gone,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God to thee--
Nearer to thee!
There let the way appear,
Steps unto heaven;
All that thou sendest me,
In mercy given;
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to thee!
Nearer to thee!
Then with my waking thoughts,
Bright with thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs,
Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God, to thee--
Nearer to thee!
Or, if on joyful wing,
Cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot,
Upward I fly;
Still all my song shall be--
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee.