Lamp of our feet (John Bacchus Dykes)

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• CPDL #22198: Capella

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-08-26).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 18 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: From the Church Hymnary, 1927

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Title: Lamp of our feet
Composer: John Bacchus Dykes
Tune: Elvet
Lyricist: Bernard Barton

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn     Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard
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Original text and translations

English text

1. Lamp of our feet, where by we trace
   Our path when wont to stray;
   Stream from the fount of heavenly grace,
   Brook by the traveller's way;

2. Bread of our souls, where on we feed,
   True manna from on high;
   Our guide and chart wherein we read
   Of realms beyond the sky;

3. Pillar of fire through watches dark
   Or radiant cloud by day;
   When waves would whelm our tossing bark,
   Our anchor and our stay;

4. Word of the ever-living God,
   Will of His glorious Son,
   Without Thee how could earth be trod,
   Or heaven itself be won?

5. Lord, grant that we aright may learn
   The wisdom it imparts,
   And to its heavenly teaching turn
   With simple childlike hearts.