Text: | Be Thou My Vision |
Translator: | Mary Byrne |
Versifier: | Eleanor H. Hull |
Tune: | SLANE |
Harmonizer: | David Evans, 1874-1948 |
1 Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Nought be all else to me save that thou art -
thou my best thought, by day or by night,
waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.
2 Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true word;
I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord;
thou my great Father; I thy true son;
thou in me dwelling, and I with thee one.
3 Riches I heed not nor man's empty praise,
thou mine inheritance, now and always;
thou and thou only first in my heart,
high King of heaven, my treasure thou art.
4 High King of heaven, my victory won,
may I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heav'n’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
still be my vision, O ruler of all.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart |
Title: | Be Thou My Vision |
Translator: | Mary Byrne (1927) |
Versifier: | Eleanor H. Hull (1927) |
Meter: | 10.10.9.10. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1995 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; |
Topic: | Trust and Guidance; Christ--Abiding with believers; Christ--All in all(3 more...) |
Source: | Early Irish |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SLANE |
Harmonizer: | David Evans, 1874-1948 |
Meter: | 10.10.9.10. |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Source: | Trad. Irish melody; From the Revised Church Hymnary (1927) |
Copyright: | Used by permission of Oxford University Press |