Lead, Kindly Light
| Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom | |
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"Lead, Kindly Light" (tune: Lux Beninga) | |
| Genre | Hymn |
| Written | 1833 |
| Text | John Henry Newman |
| Based on | Exodus 13:21-22 |
| Meter | 10.4.10.4.10.10 |
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"Lead, Kindly Light, Amid the encircling gloom" is a hymn with words written in 1833 by John Henry Newman as a poem titled "the Pillar of the Cloud", which was first published in the British Magazine in 1834, and republished in Lyra Apostolica in 1836.