Nearer, My God To The

Text: Sarah F. Adams
Music: Lowell Mason

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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 shall be,
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        nearer, my God, to thee;
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        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, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!

3.	There let the way appear, steps unto heaven;
	all that thou sendest me, in mercy given;
	angels to beckon me
	nearer, my God, to thee;
	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, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!

5.	Or if, on joyful wing cleaving the sky,
	sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I fly,
	still all my song shall be,
	nearer, my God, to thee;
	nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!