Hymns of the Christian Church. The Harvard Classics. 190914. | | Modern Hymns | | Nearer, My God, to Thee | | Sarah Flower Adams (18051848) | | | NEARER, my God, to thee, | | Nearer to thee! | | Een though it be a cross | | That raiseth me, | | Still all my song would be, | 5 | Nearer, my God, to thee, | | Nearer to thee! | | | Though like the wanderer, | | The sun gone down, | | Darkness be over me, | 10 | My rest a stone, | | Yet in my dreams Id be | | Nearer, my God, to thee, | | Nearer to thee. | | | There let the way appear | 15 | Steps unto heaven; | | All that thou sendst to me | | In mercy given; | | Angels to beckon me | | Nearer, my God, to thee, | 20 | Nearer to thee. | | | Then, with my waking thoughts | | Bright with thy praise, | | Out of my stony griefs | | Bethel Ill raise; | 25 | So by my woes to be | | Nearer, my God, to thee, | | Nearer to thee. | | | Or if on joyful wing | | Cleaving the sky, | 30 | Sun, moon, and stars forgot, | | Upwards I fly, | | Still all my song shall be, | | Nearer, my God, to thee, | | Nearer to thee! | 35 | | |
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