Chorus
One thing I of the Lord desire
For all my path hath miry been
Be it by water or by fire
O make me clean, o make me clean

Verse 1
Wash me, Thou, without, within
Or purge with fire, if that must be
Anyhow, if only sin
Die out in me, die out, die out in me

Verse 2
If clearer vision Thou impart
Grateful and glad my soul shall be
But yet to have a purer heart
Is more to me, is more to me

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Verse 3
Yea, only as this heart is clean
May larger vision yet be mine
For mirrored in its depths are seen
The things divine, the things divine

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Verse 4
I watch to shun the miry way
And stanch the springs of guilty thought
But, watch and struggle as I may
Pure I am not, pure I am not

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