The Army and Navy Hymnal/Hymns/Nearer, My God, to Thee
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\header { tagline = ##f title = \markup { "Nearer, My God, to Thee" " " "87" } subsubtitle = "(BETHANY. 6,4,6,4,6,6,4)" composer = "Lowell Mason, 1856" poet = "Sarah F. Adams, 1841" }
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- 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, my God to thee, nearer to thee! - Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me, My rest a stone;
Yet in my dream I'd be, Nearer, my God to thee,
Nearer, my God to thee, nearer to thee! - There let the way appear Step 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! - 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! - 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, my God to thee, nearer to thee! Amen