Lead, Kindly Light

Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom
"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
Melody	Alberta – William H. Harris Sandon – Charles H. Purday Lux Benigna – J.B. Dykes

"Lead, Kindly Light, Amid the encircling gloom" is a hymn with words written in 1833 by Saint 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.^[1]