“I know I owe my all to Thee,
O, take this heart I cannot give.
Do Thou my Strength my Saviour be;
And make me to Thy glory live!”

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Prayer (1844)

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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