Music: Lowell Mason, 1856
Sarah Flower Adams
[Verse 1]
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Nearer, my God, to Thee. Nearer to Thee!
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E'en though it be a cross. That raiseth me.
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Still all my song would be, nearer, my God, to Thee
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Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee
[Verse 2]
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Though, like the wanderer, the sun goes down
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Darkness be over me, my rest a stone
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Yet in my dreams I'd be, nearer, my God, to Thee.
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Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee
[Verse 3]
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There let the way appear steps up to heav'n,
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All that Thou sendest me in mercy giv'n.
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Angels to beckon me, nearer, my God, to Thee.
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Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee
[Verse 4]
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Then, with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,
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Out of my stony griefs, Bethel I'll raise.
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So by my woes to be, nearer, my God, to Thee.
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Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee
[Verse 5]
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Or if on joyful wing, cleaving the sky,
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Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upwards I fly.
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Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.
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Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee
