“Jesus, Master, I am Thine;
Keep me faithful, keep me near;
Let Thy presence in me shine
All my homeward way to cheer.
Jesus, at Thy feet I fall,
Oh, be Thou my All in All.”

—  Frances Ridley Havergal

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.

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