Oh! for a closer walk with God (Myles Birket Foster)

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  • (Posted 2021-04-18)  CPDL #64091:       
Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2021-04-18).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 119 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Oh! for a closer walk with God
Composer: Myles Birket Foster
Lyricist: William Cowper
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATB
, with Sop or Tenor Solo.
Genre: SacredAnthem

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

First published:
Description: Originally published by Novello and Co

External websites:

Original text and translations

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Oh! for a closer walk with God,
a calm and heav'nly frame,
a light to shine upon the road
that leads me to the Lamb!

What peaceful hours I then enjoyed!
How sweet their mem'ry still!
But they have left an aching void
the world can never fill.

Return, O holy Dove, return,
sweet messenger of rest;
I hate the sins that made Thee mourn,
and drove Thee from my breast.

The dearest idol I have known,
whate'er that idol be,
help me to tear it from Thy throne
and worship only Thee.

I hate the sins that made Thee mourn,
and drove Thee from my breast.
Return, O holy Dove, return,
sweet messenger of rest;

So shall my walk be close with God,
calm and serene my frame;
so purer light shall mark the road
that leads me to the Lamb.