| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Hymns.
I. “Nearer, my God, to Thee” | | By Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848) |
| | | NEARER, my God, to Thee, | |
| Nearer to Thee! | |
| E’en though it be a cross | |
| That raiseth me; | |
| Still all my song shall be, | 5 |
| Nearer, my God, to Thee, | |
| Nearer to Thee! | |
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| Though like the wanderer, | |
| The sun gone down, | |
| Darkness be over me, | 10 |
| My rest a stone; | |
| Yet in my dreams I’d be | |
| Nearer, my God, to Thee, | |
| Nearer to Thee! | |
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| There let the way appear, | 15 |
| Steps unto heaven; | |
| All that thou send’st to me, | |
| In mercy given; | |
| Angels to beckon me, | |
| Nearer, my God, to Thee, | 20 |
| Nearer to Thee! | |
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| Then with my waking thoughts, | |
| Bright with Thy praise, | |
| Out of my stony griefs, | |
| Bethel I’ll raise; | 25 |
| So by my woes to be | |
| Nearer, my God, to Thee, | |
| Nearer to Thee! | |
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| 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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