Consecration
Be Thou My Vision
- Words:
- Attr. Dallan Forgaill, 8th Century. Translated by Mary Byrne, 1905 and Eleanor Hull, 1912.
- Music:
- 'Slane' Traditional Irish.
- Setting:
- Mark Hamilton Dewey, 2007.
- Metre:
- 10 10 10 10
- 1Be Thou my Vision,O Lord of my heart;Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,Waking or sleeping,Thy presence my light.
- 2Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;Thou my great Father, and I Thy true son;Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.
- 3Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;Thou my soul's Shelter, Thou my high Tower:Raise Thou me heav'nward, O Pow'r of my pow'r.
- 4Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise,Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:Thou and Thou only, be first in my heart,High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art.
- 5High King of Heaven, my victory won,May I reach Heav'ns joys, O bright Heaven's Sun!Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.
Scripture
Topics
In the hymnals
- Written in 1905, the words are in 205 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Slane, is in 321 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.