# A Hymn for Aviators

- Music: Hubert Parry (died 1918)
- Words: Mary Christian Dundas Hamilton (died 1943)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6205868

## The words

Lord, guard and guide our men who fly Through  
the great spaces of the sky, Be with them  
traversing the air In dark’ning storm or  
sunshine fair.  
Thou who dost keep with tender might The  
balanced birds in all their flight,  
Thou of the tempered winds, be near,  
That, having Thee, they know no fear.  
Control their minds, with instinct fit,  
What time, adventuring, they quit The firm  
security of land; Grant steadfast eye and  
skilful hand.  
Aloft, in solitudes of space, Uphold them  
with Thy saving grace; O God, protect our men  
who fly Through lonely ways beneath the sky.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).