Pick Your -lily Adverbs With Care

When John Henry Newman wrote Lead, Kindly Light at sea on June 16 1933, he didn\u27t mispunctuate, intending Lead Kindly, Light . How can one say this with confidence 180 years later? Very simply, because we know that Newman would never had been guilty of such a syntactical faux pas. Instead, he would have had to write Lead Kindlily, Light , sacrificing sound to sense