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Text:Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom
Author:John Henry Newman, 1801-1890
Tune:ALBERTA
Composer:William Henry Harris, 1883-1973

106b. Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom

3 So long Your power has blessed 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.

Text Information
First Line: Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom
Author: John Henry Newman, 1801-1890 (alt.)
Meter: 10 4 10 4 10 10
Language: English
Publication Date: 2004
Topic: God Through the Years: His Guidance
Source: Alt.: Compilers
Tune Information
Name: ALBERTA
Composer: William Henry Harris, 1883-1973
Meter: 10 4 10 4 10 10
Key: D♭ Major
Source: Arr. for BBC Hymn Book 1951



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