O For A Closer Walk

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Composer
Charles Villiers Stanford
Difficulty
Moderate radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_unchecked radio_button_unchecked
Season
General Lent Season After Pentecost Epiphany (day and season)
Voicing(s)
SAB
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano]
Category
Anthems Communion Anthems Evening Service
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

An SAB arrangement (with organ) of the Stanford classic.  Very lovely and easily learned. Text by William Cowper (1772).

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Lyrics

O for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame,
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb!

Return, O holy Dove, return,
Sweet messenger of rest!
I hate the sins that made Thee mourn
And drove Thee from my breast.
 
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.