Darkness be over me, my rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I'd be
nearer, my God, to Thee,
Or if on joyful wing, cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upwards I fly,
Still all my song shall be,
nearer, my God, to Thee,
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There in my Father's home, safe and at rest,
There in my Saviour's love, perfectly blest;
Age after age to be,
nearer my God to Thee
by
Sarah Flower Adams
& Edward Henry Bickersteth Jr.