I ought to apologize to sensitive and hymnologically sapient readers for having linked to the CyberHymnal for “Lead, Kindly Light.” That link automatically fires up John Dykes’s banal and discordant Lux Benigna, when in fact John Henry Newman’s exquisitely beautiful verses should only ever be sung to the tune Sandon.
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Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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