I Bind Unto Myself Today

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About this hymn

Date: 1889
Tune: St
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Key: Bb
Meter: 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Historical background

This edition is preserved in the Open Hymnal Project at source revision d35811b2d5c9. Contributor and publication details below are reproduced from the score metadata rather than inferred.

Theology & Scripture

The source index associates this text with Aspiration, Atonement, Baptism, Christian Life, Commitment, Conversion.

Mt 28:19 · Ps 91:4 · 2Cor 13:14

Musical background

St is presented in the source key of Bb, with 6 documented parts.

Sources & rights

Verified for United States on 2026-10-13. Public domain — source score marking

Words: attributed to St. Patrick of Ireland (circa 387-466). Paraphrased by Cecil F. Alexander, 1889. Music: 'St. Patricks Breastplate' Charles V. Stanford, 1902. Setting: "The English Hymnal", 1906. copyright: public domain.