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My Purchased Files| Text: | Be Thou My Vision |
| Translator: | Mary E. Byrne |
| Versifier: | Eleanor H. Hull |
| Tune: | SLANE |
| Harmonizer: | David Evans |
445. Be Thou My Vision
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart |
| Title: | Be Thou My Vision |
| Translator: | Mary E. Byrne (1905) |
| Versifier: | Eleanor H. Hull (1912, alt.) |
| Meter: | 10 10.9 10 |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1998 |
| Topic: | Commitment, Discipleship and Service; Eternal Life; God: Guidance and Help |
| Source: | Ancient Irish |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | SLANE |
| Harmonizer: | David Evans (1927) |
| Meter: | 10 10.9 10 |
| Key: | E♭ Major |
| Source: | Traditional Irish melody; Harm. Revised Church Hymnary, 1927 |
| Copyright: | Harm. © 1927 by permission of Oxford University Press |
Text Information:
The original Irish text dates from c. A.D. 700
Tune Information:
SLANE is an ancient ballad tune named for the hill where St. Patrick lit Easter fires
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