Text: | Nearer, my God, to Thee |
Author: | Sarah Flower Adams |
Tune: | BETHANY |
Composer: | Lowell Mason |
1 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,
Nearer to Thee!
2 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,
Nearer to Thee!
3 There let my way appear
Steps unto heaven;
All that Thou sendest me
In mercy given;
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
4 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,
Nearer to Thee!
5 Or, if on joyful wing
Cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot,
Upwards I fly:
Still, all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Nearer, my God, to Thee |
Author: | Sarah Flower Adams (1841) |
Refrain First Line: | Nearer my God, to Thee |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | The Christian Life: Cross and Comfort |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BETHANY |
Composer: | Lowell Mason (1856) |
Meter: | 6 4, 6 4, 6 6 4 |
Key: | G Major |