Hymn: Lead, kindly Light, amid th' encircling gloom

  • Title: Lead, Kindly Light
  • First Line: Lead, kindly Light, amid th' encircling gloom
  • Hymnal: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)
  • Denomination: Unitarians and Universalists
  • Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
  • Publication Date: 1866

Author(s)

  • Author Name: John Henry Newman
  • Born: 1801
  • Died: 1890
  • Gender: M

Full Text

Send kindly light amid the encircling gloom, And lead me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home; Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet: I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me. I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me on; I loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead Thou me on! I loved day's dazzling light, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years! So long Thy power hath blessed me, surely still 'Twill lead me on Through dreary doubt, through pain and sorrow, till The night is gone, And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.

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