From “40 Favorite Hymns on the Christian Life, by Leland Ryken:

May the Mind of  Christ My Savior
Kate B. Wilkinson (1859-1928)
 
May the mind of Christ my Savior
Live in me from day to day,
By his love and power controlling
All I do and say.

May the word of Christ dwell richly
In my heart from hour to hour,
So that all may see I triumph
Only through his power.

May the peace of Christ my Savior
Rule my life in everything,
That I may be calm to comfort
Sick and sorrowing.

May the love of Jesus fill me
As the waters fill the sea;
Him exalting, self abasing,
This is victory.

May I run the race before me,
Strong and brave to face the foe,
Looking only unto Jesus
As I onward go.

May his beauty rest upon me
As I seek the lost to win,
And may they forget the channel,
Seeing only him.

I quote Ryken as he expounds on the poem;
“the speaker (and we with her) lists a series of spiritual acts and qualities using the grammatical construction ‘may’.  What do we intend when we say “may” this or that happen?  It is certainly a wish or desire--but in a spiritual context it also carries the force of a prayer.”  End quote.

As I read the words of this poem, later to become a hymn, is was a prayer for me as written in various verses in the New Testament.   Look at the first verse:
“May the mind of Christ my Savior live in me.”  Now Philippians 2:5
“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”

The last verse:
“May His beauty rest upon me” comes from the Psalms.
“And let the beauty of the LORD rest upon us…”  Psalm 90:17

My challenge is for each of us to find the Scripture that the writer is asking for in the poem’s verses 2, 3, 4 and 5.

I do not know who wrote the music that turned this poem into a hymn, but I am blessed by it and thank you Lord for it.  Thank you Lord for giving Your people these creative abilities.  They are a blessing to Your church!
Amen

Note:
Ryken speaks of 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 where we see the use of ‘may’ in the apostle’s prayer for the Thessalonians.