O that I could forever dwell
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O that I could forever dwellDelighted at my Saviour's feet,Behold the form I love so well,And all his tender words repeat!
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The world shut out from all my soul,And heaven brought in with all its bliss,O, is there aught, from pole to pole,One moment to compare with this?
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This is the hidden life I prize,—A life of penitential love;When most my follies I despise,And raise my highest thoughts above;
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When all I am I clearly see,And freely own, with deepest shame;When the Redeemer's love to meKindles within a deathless flame.
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Thus would I live till nature fail,And all my former sins forsake;Then rise to God within the vail,And of eternal joys partake.