One thing I of the Lord desire

One thing I of the Lord desire

For all my path hath miry been:

Be it by water or by fire

Oh

make me clean

oh

make me clean!

So wash me

Thou

without

within

Or purge with fire

if that must be;

No matter how

if only sin

Die out in me

die out in me.

I watch to shun the miry way

And staunch the springs of guilty thought;

But

watch and struggle as I may

Pure I am not

pure I am not.

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.

Yea

only as this heart is clean

May larger vision yet be mine

For mirrored in the depths are seen

The things divine

the things divine.