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Hymn: O for a closer walk with God (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: O for a closer walk with God

Topic: The New Life/Relapse and Recovery

Writer: <no first name given> Cowper

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 943

Page Number: 561, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

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!



Where is the blessedness I knew

When first I saw the Lord?

Where is the soul-refreshing view

Of Jesus and his word?



What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!

How sweet their memory still!

But they have left an aching void

The world can never fill.



Return, O holy Dove, return,

Sweet messenger of rest;

I hate the sins that made thee mourn,

And drove thee from my breast.



The dearest idol I have known,

Whate'er that idol be,

Help me to tear it from thy throne,

And worship only thee.



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.