Be Thou My Light

Mar 26, 2016, 05:16 PM

a villanelle inspired by Valley of Vision, “Need of Jesus”, #186

I am blind, be Thou my light. Speak, call me into New Creation’s Day, And seeing Thee, I shall love aright. My heart bedeviled with the night Is faithless, wanders, loves to stray I am blind, be Thou my light. Rescue me; employ Thy might; Leave no unclean spirits to remain And seeing Thee, I shall love aright. Raised upon Golgotha's height, God’s Lovingkindness, the world did slay; I am blind, be Thou my light. Now this morn, the end of night-- With spice to dress at dawn’s first ray, And seeing Thee, I shall love aright. My called name turns dark to sight; Fear and sadness gives way to say, "I was blind, Thou art my light!" And seeing Thee, I love aright.

(c) Randy Edwards artwork: Biblia Pauperum, Netherlands, N.; c. 1405. The Master of the Hours of Margaret of Cleves (Lisbon, Museum Calouste Gulbenkian, Ms. LA 148).

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