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Wash, Lord, and purify my heart, And make it clean in every part, And when ’tis clean, Lord, keep it too, For that is more than I can do.

Wash, Lord, and purify my heart, And make it clean in every part, And when ’tis clean, Lord, keep it too, For that is more than I can do.
Thomas Ellwood (identity unresolved)

In print by 1888 AD · industrial

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Thomas Ellwood (identity unresolved)
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In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)

Page 287 · printed citation: Thomas Ellwood · subject: HEART

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