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<title>BLB Hymns</title>
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<h2>LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Your Word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.” Psalm 119:105</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_d_y_dykes_jb.jpg" alt="John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876)" width="133.333333333333" height="200"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_n_e_newman_jh.html" target="_blank">John Henry Newman</a>, 1833 (verses 1-3); <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_i_bickersteth_eh.html" target="_blank">Edward Henry Bickersteth, Jr.</a>, <em>Hymnal Companion </em>(verse 4).
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Lux Benigna” (Kindly Light), <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_d_y_dykes_jb.html" target="_blank">John Bacchus Dykes</a>, 1865 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_l_luxbenig.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Sandon,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_p_u_purday_ch.html" target="_blank">Charles Henry Purday</a>, 1857 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_sandon.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_n_e_newman_jh.jpg" alt="John Henry Newman, 1863" width="132" height="188.666666666667"></td>
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<p class="just">While traveling in Italy as a young priest, John Newman fell ill and stayed at Castle Giovanni almost three weeks. Finally, he was well enough continue his journey to Palermo:</p>
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<p>Before starting from my inn, I sat down on my bed and began to sob bitterly. My servant, who had acted as my nurse, asked what ailed me. I could only answer, “I have a work to do in England.” I was aching to get home, yet for want of a vessel I was kept at Palermo for three weeks. I began to visit the churches, and they calmed my impatience, though I did not attend any services. At last I got off in an orange boat, bound for Marseilles. We were becalmed
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for whole week in the Straits of Bonifacio, and it was there that I wrote the lines, “Lead, Kindly Light,” which have since become so well known.</p>
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<p>Lead, kindly Light, amid th’encircling gloom, lead Thou me on!<br>
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The night is dark, and I am far from home; lead Thou me on!<br>
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Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see<br>
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The distant scene; one step enough for me.</p>
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<p>I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou shouldst lead me on;<br>
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I loved to choose and see my path; but now lead Thou me on!<br>
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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,<br>
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Pride ruled my will. Remember not past years!</p>
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<p>So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still will lead me on.<br>
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O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, till the night is gone,<br>
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And with the morn those angel faces smile, which I<br>
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Have loved long since, and lost awhile!</p>
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<p>Meantime, along the narrow rugged path, Thyself hast trod,<br>
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Lead, Savior, lead me home in childlike faith, home to my God.<br>
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To rest forever after earthly strife<br>
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In the calm light of everlasting life.</p>
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