One thing I of the Lord desire

- One thing I of the Lord desire,
- for all my path hath miry been:
- be it by water or by fire,
- oh, make me clean, oh, make me clean!
- 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.
- I watch to shun the miry way,
- and staunch the springs of guilty
- thought;
- but, watch and struggle as I may,
- pure I am not, pure I am not.
- 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.
- Yea, only as this heart is clean
- may larger vision yet be mine,
- for mirrored in the depths are seen
- the things divine, the things divine. ......
Album: English Hymns, Artist: Walter G Smith, Language: English, Viewed: 327 times