“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
The distant scene,—one step enough for me.”

The Pillar of the Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/236/75.html, st. 1 (1833).

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