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| Text: | Be Thou My Vision |
| Translator: | Mary Byrne (1880-1931) |
| Versifier: | Eleanor Hull (1860-1935) |
| Tune: | SLANE |
| Arranger: | David Evans (1874-1948) |
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart |
| Title: | Be Thou My Vision |
| Translator: | Mary Byrne (1880-1931) (1905) |
| Versifier: | Eleanor Hull (1860-1935) (1912) |
| Meter: | 10.10.9.10. |
| Publication Date: | 1985 |
| Topic: | Christan Life: Guidance |
| Source: | 8th century Irish |
| Copyright: | Words from The Poem Book of the Gael, edited by Eleanor Hull, by permission of the Editor's Estate and Chatto & Windus. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | SLANE |
| Arranger: | David Evans (1874-1948) |
| Meter: | 10.10.9.10. |
| Incipit: | 11216 56112 32222 |
| Key: | E♭ Major |
| Notes: | Harmony setting, No. 320 |
Arrangement from the Revised Church Hymnary 1927, by permission of Oxford University Press.