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Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Poems (1836). VI. Let Me Be with Thee

Charlotte Elliott (1789–1871)

LET me be with Thee where Thou art,

My Saviour, my eternal Rest;

Then only will this longing heart

Be fully and for ever blest.

Let me be with Thee where Thou art;

Thy unveiled glory to behold;

Then only will this wayward heart

Cease to be treacherous, faithless, cold.

Let me be with Thee where Thou art,

Where spotless saints Thy Name adore;

Then only will this sinful heart

Be evil and defiled no more.

Let me be with Thee where Thou art,

Where none can die, whence none remove,

Then only will this cleansèd heart

Reflect the fulness of Thy love.