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<h2>O FOR A CLOSER WALK WITH GOD</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;They shall walk with Me in white: for they are worthy.&#8221; Revelation 3:4</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_c_o_cowper_w.jpg" alt="William Cowper (1731-1800)" width="126" height="202.666666666667"></td>
<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_c_o_cowper_w.html" target="_blank">William Cowper</a>, in Conyer&#8217;s <em>Collection of Psalms and Hymns</em>, 1772. About these lines, Cowper wrote to his aunt:
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<p>I began to compose them yesterday morning before daybreak, but I fell asleep at the end of the first two lines. When I awaked again, the third and fourth verses were whispered to my heart in a way I have often experienced.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Caithness,&#8221; <em>Scottish Psalter</em>, 1635 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_c_caithnes.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>&#8220;Dalehurst,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_c_o_cottman_a.html" target="_blank">Arthur Cottman</a>, 1874 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_d_dalehurs.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>O for a closer walk with God,<br>
A calm and heavenly frame,<br>
A light to shine upon the road<br>
That leads me to the Lamb!</p>
<p>Where is the blessedness I knew,<br>
When first I saw the Lord?<br>
Where is the soul refreshing view<br>
Of Jesus and His Word?</p>
<p>What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!<br>
How sweet their memory still!<br>
But they have left an aching void<br>
The world can never fill.</p>
<p>Return, O holy Dove, return,<br>
Sweet messenger of rest!<br>
I hate the sins that made Thee mourn<br>
And drove Thee from my breast.</p>
<p>The dearest idol I have known,<br>
Whate&#8217;er that idol be<br>
Help me to tear it from Thy throne,<br>
And worship only Thee.</p>
<p>So shall my walk be close with God,<br>
Calm and serene my frame;<br>
So purer light shall mark the road<br>
That leads me to the Lamb.</p>
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