====== #2 - Nearer, My God, To Thee ======
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/*-20note-*//*-hymn-*/
  *Composer:
    *++Lowell Mason|{{search>"Lowell Mason" @cobs}}++ (1792-1872), 1856
  *Also known as:
    *Bethany
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee\\
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me,\\
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.\\
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Nearer, my God, to Thee,\\
Nearer to Thee!\\
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Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,\\
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone.\\
Yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God to Thee.\\
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There let the way appear, steps unto Heav'n;\\
All that Thou sendest me, in mercy given;\\
Angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee.\\
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Then, with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,\\
Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;\\
So by my woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee.\\
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Or, if on joyful wing cleaving the sky,\\
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I'll fly,\\
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.\\
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    *++Sarah Fuller Flower Adams|{{search>"Sarah Fuller Flower Adams" @cobs}}++ (1805-1848), 1841
  *See also:
    *[[..:3005:]]