Adams, Mrs. Sarah [Flower]. Author of "Nearer, My God, to Thee"; born in England, 1805; died, 1848.

ADAMS, Sarah Fuller (Flower), b[orn] Harlow, [England] 1805; died 1848. Daughter of Benjamin Flower, journalist and politician. In 1834 she married William Bridges Adams. Was connected with the religious society at Finsbury, [England] under the care of William Johnson Fox. "Vivia Perpetua," her dramatic poem was published in 1841.

HYMN
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower,
Alike they're needful for the flower:
And�joys and tears alike are sent
To give the soul fit nourishment.
As comes to me or cloud or sun,
Father! thy will, not mine, be done!
Can loving children e'er reprove
With murmurs whom they trust and love?
Creator! I would ever be
A trusting, loving child to thee:
As comes to me or cloud or sun,
Father! thy will, not mine, be done!
Oh, ne'er will I at life repine:
Enough that thou hast made it mine.
When falls the shadow cold of death
I yet will sing, with parting breath,
As comes to me or shade or sun,
Father! thy will, not mine, be done!
Sarah Flower Adams

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LOVE
O Love! thou makest all things even
In earth or heaven;
Finding thy way through prison-bars
Up to the stars;
Or, true to the Almighty plan,
That out of dust created man,
Thou lookest in a grave,--to see
Thine immortality!
Sarah Flower Adams

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NEARER TO THEE
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
E'en though it be be a cross
That raiseth me;
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
Though like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
There let the way appear
Steps unto heaven;
All that thou send'st to me
In mercy given;
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
Then, with my waking thoughts
Bright with thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs
Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
Or if on joyful wing
Cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot,
Upward I fly,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
Sarah Flower Adams

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A Victorian Anthology
1837-1895
Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of British Poetry in the Reign of Victoria
Edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Boston and New York
© 1895
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