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| Text: | Be Thou My Vision |
| Translator: | Mary Byrne |
| Versifier: | Eleanor Hull |
| Tune: | SLANE |
| Harmonizer: | David Evans |
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart |
| Title: | Be Thou My Vision |
| Irish Title: | Rob to mo bhoile |
| Translator: | Mary Byrne (1905) |
| Versifier: | Eleanor Hull (1912, alt.) |
| Meter: | 10 10.9 10 dactylic (irregular) |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1985 |
| Topic: | Vision |
| Source: | Ancient Irish poem |
| Copyright: | Versification used by permission of the Estate of Eleanor Hull and Chatto & Windus, Ltd. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | SLANE |
| Harmonizer: | David Evans (1927) |
| Meter: | 10 10.9 10 dactylic (irregular) |
| Key: | E♭ Major |
| Source: | Irish folk melody |
| Copyright: | Harmonization from the Revised Church Hymnry 1927, used by permission of Oxford University Press |
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