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547. Be Thou My Vision

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: Eā™­ Major
Notes: Harmony setting, No. 320


Tune Information:

Arrangement from the Revised Church Hymnary 1927, by permission of Oxford University Press.


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