| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Verses on Various Occasions.
VI. The Pillar of the Cloud (“Lead, Kindly Light”) | | By John Henry Newman (1801–1890) |
| | A Sea, on the 16th of June, 1833
LEAD, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, | |
| Lead Thou 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 | 5 |
| The distant scene,—one step enough for me. | |
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| I was not ever thus, nor pray’d that Thou | |
| Shouldst lead me on. | |
| I loved to choose and see my path, but now | |
| Lead Thou me on! | 10 |
| I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, | |
| Pride ruled my will: remember not past years. | |
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| So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still | |
| Will lead me on. | |
| O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, till | 15 |
| 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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