“Oh! for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heav'nly frame;
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb!”

No. 1, "Walking With God".
Olney Hymns (1779)

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(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800

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