====== #3004 - Lead, Kindly Light ======
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/*-32note-*//*-hymn-*/
  *Composer:
    *Dudley Buck (1839–1909)(([[:refs#Grand Roller Organ, A Musical Wonder]]))(([[:refs#Sears, Roebuck & Co. 1900 catalog]]))
  *[[:incipit]]: 51233216165171251233236165
  *[[:incipit|Condensed Incipit]]: 512321616517125123236165
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  *See also:
    *[[..:734:]]
  *++Lyrics:|\\
Lead, kindly Light, amid th' encircling gloom,\\
Lead Thou me on;\\
The night is dark, and I am far from home;\\
Lead Thou me on.\\
Keep Thou my feet, I do not ask to see\\
The distant scene one step enough for me.\\
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I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou\\
Shouldst lead me on;\\
I loved to choose and see my path; but now\\
Lead Thou me on.\\
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,\\
Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.\\
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So long Thy Power hath blest me, sure it still\\
Will lead me on,\\
O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent till\\
The night is gone;\\
And with the morn those angel faces smile,\\
Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.\\
\\
++
    *John Henry Newman (1801-1890), 1833

This is a different melody than [[..:734:]] by John Bacchus Dykes (1823–1876).