Consecration
Take Thou My Hand and Lead Me
- Words:
- Julie Katharina von Hausmann, 1862.
- Music:
- 'So Nimm Denn Meine Hände' Friedrich Silcher, 1842.
- Setting:
- Donna Snell, circa 1975.
- Metre:
- 11 11 11 11
- 1Take Thou my hand, and lead me o'er life's rough way,with Heav'nly Manna feed me from day to day.Alone my footsteps falter and straggle wide,Lord who my life canst alter be Thou my guide.
- 2Take Thou my heart and hide it in folds of graceThough pain or woe betide it to know Thy faceDraw, Lord, of Thy good pleasure Thy child to Thee,And grant me faith's full measure though naught I see.
- 3Though oft I think Thou hidest Thy wondrous might,Still to my goal Thou guidest me through dark night,Take, then, my hands and lead me till life is o'er,With heav'nly manna feed me forevermore.
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In the hymnals
- The words are in 10 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, So Nimm Denn Meine Hände, is in 121 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. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. 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.