Text:Be Thou My Vision
Translator:Mary E. Byrne
Versifier:Eleanor H. Hull
Tune:SLANE
Harmonizer:David Allen

71. Be Thou My Vision

1 Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
naught 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 soul’s shelter, and Thou my high tower,
raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

3 Riches I heed not, nor vain 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
First Line: Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart
Title: Be Thou My Vision
Translator: Mary E. Byrne (1905)
Versifier: Eleanor H. Hull (1912)
Meter: Irregular
Language: English
Publication Date: 2010
Topic: God the Father: Sustainer; Fellowship with God; Love for God
Source: Trad. Irish
Tune Information
Name: SLANE
Harmonizer: David Allen (1986)
Meter: Irregular
Key: E♭ Major
Source: Trad. Irish melody
Copyright: Harm. © 1986 Word Music, LLC



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