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Text: | Be Thou My Vision |
Translator: | Mary Elizabeth Byrne |
Tune: | SLANE |
Harmonizer: | Martin Shaw |
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, be thou my true word;
I ever with thee, and thou with me, Lord.
Born of thy love, thy child may I be,
thou in me dwelling and I one with thee.
3 Be thou my buckler, my sword for the fight.
Be thou my dignity, thou my delight,
thou my soul’s shelter, thou my high tow’r.
Raise thou me heav’nward, O Pow’r of my pow’r.
4 Riches I heed not, nor vain empty praise;
thou mine inheritance, now and always.
Thou and thou only, first in my heart,
Ruler of heaven, my treasure thou art.
5 "*True Light of heaven, when vict’ry is won
may I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heav’n’s Sun!
Heart of my heart, whatever befall,
still be my vision, O Ruler of all.
*Alternate phrase: “High King”
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart |
Title: | Be Thou My Vision |
Translator: | Mary Elizabeth Byrne |
Meter: | 10.10.9.10 |
Publication Date: | 2020 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Guidance; Ordination; Union with God(7 more...) |
Source: | Irish traditional, “Rob tu mo bhoile, a Comdi cride,” ca. 8th c.; trans. Mary Elizabeth Byrne (Ireland), Ériu, Vol. 2, 1905, alt. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SLANE |
Harmonizer: | Martin Shaw |
Meter: | 10.10.9.10 |
Key: | E Major |
Source: | Irish traditional, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 1909; harm. Martin Shaw (England), Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931, alt. |
Copyright: | harm. © 1927 Oxford University Press |