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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 315 · Words: William Cowper
O for a Closer Walk!
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →Written by William Cowper in 1769 and first published in the Olney Hymns (1779), this hymn is a personal prayer for restored spiritual intimacy with God, lamenting the loss of the Holy Spirit's presence due to sin.
Verse 1
O for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame,
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb!
Verse 2
Return, O holy Dove, return,
Sweet messenger of rest!
I hate the sins that made Thee mourn
And drove Thee from my breast.
Verse 3
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.
Verse 4
The dearest idol I have known,
Whate'er that idol be
Help me to tear it from Thy throne,
And worship only Thee.
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