Oh for a closer walk with God (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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Editor: Ted Dean (added 2006-04-22).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 102 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Hymn (after a song of Wisdom) - Oh for a closer walk with God
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthems
Language: English
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Published: 1910

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External websites: http://www.tvjrdean.f9.co.uk/music/choral/choral.htm

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English text

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!

Return, O holy dove, return,
Sweet messenger of rest;
I hate the sins that made thee mourn,
And drove thee from my breast.

So shall my walk be close with God,
Calm and serene my frame;
So purer light shall mark the road
That leads me to the Lamb.

William Cowper (1731-1800)