Text: | One Thing I of the Lord desire (A Clean Heart) |
Author: | Walter Chalmers Smith, 1824-1908 |
Tune: | A CLEAN HEART |
Composer: | Fred H. Byshe |
1 One thing I of the Lord desire,
For all my path hath miry been,
Be it by water or by fire,
O make me clean, O make me clean.
Refrain:
So wash me, Thou, without, within,
Or purge with fire, if that must be,
No matter how, if only sin
Die out in me, die out in me.
2 If clearer vision Thou impart,
Grateful and glad my soul shall be;
But yet to have a purer heart
Is more to me, Is more to me. [Refrain]
3 Yea, only as this heart is clean
May larger vision yet be mine,
For mirrored in its depths are seen
The things divine, the things divine. [Refrain]
4 I watch to shun the miry way,
And stanch the springs of guilty thought;
But, watch and struggle as I may,
Pure I am not, Pure I am not. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | One thing I of the Lord desire |
Title: | One Thing I of the Lord desire (A Clean Heart) |
Author: | Walter Chalmers Smith, 1824-1908 |
Refrain First Line: | So wash me, Thou, without, within |
Meter: | Irregular |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2011 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | The Christian Life: Dedication and Consecration; Choir; Holiness(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | A CLEAN HEART |
Composer: | Fred H. Byshe |
Meter: | Irregular |
Key: | B♭ Major |