1 BLEST be the dear, uniting love. That will not let us part; Our bodies may far off remove, We still are join’d in heart. 2 Join’d in one Spirit to our Head, Where He appoints we go, And still in Jesu’s footsteps tread, And do His work below. 3 O let us ever walk in Him, And nothing know beside, Nothing desire, nothing esteem, But Jesus crucified. 4 Closer and closer let us cleave To His beloved embrace; Expect His fulness to receive, And grace to answer grace. 5 While thus we walk with