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SURSUM CORDA by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

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First Line: LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS
Last Line: AND TAKE MY WILL, AND TAKE MY HEART, AND TAKE ME TOO.
'LIFT up your hearts.' 'We lift them up.' Ah me!
I cannot, Lord, lift up my heart to Thee:
Stoop, lift it up, that where Thou art I too may be.

'Give Me thy heart.' I would not say Thee nay,
But have no power to keep or give away
My heart: stoop, Lord, and take it to Thyself to-day.

Stoop, Lord, as once before, now once anew;
Stoop, Lord, and hearken, hearken, Lord, and do,
And take my will, and take my heart, and take me too.



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