“Renew my will from day to day,
Blend it with Thine, and take away
All that now makes it hard to say,
"Thy will be done."”

—  Charlotte Elliott

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 615.

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English poet, hymn writer, editor 1789–1871

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