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Text: | Abide with Me: Fast Falls the Eventide |
Author: | Henry Francis Lyte |
Tune: | EVENTIDE (MONK) |
Composer: | William H. Monk |
1 Abide with me: fast falls the eventide:
the darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide:
when other helpers fail, and comforts flee,
help of the helpless, O abide with me.
2 Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
change and decay in all around I see;
O thou who changest not, abide with me.
3 I need thy presence every passing hour;
what but thy grace can foil the tempter's pow'r?
Who like thyself my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, O abide with me.
4 I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless:
ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Where is death's sting? where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if thou abide with me.
5 Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes:
shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies:
heav'n's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee:
in life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.
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First Line: | Abide with me: fast falls the eventide |
Title: | Abide with Me: Fast Falls the Eventide |
Author: | Henry Francis Lyte (1847) |
Meter: | 10.10.10.10. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | The Church: Evening; Consolation; Death: Anticipated(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | EVENTIDE (MONK) |
Composer: | William H. Monk (1861) |
Meter: | 10.10.10.10. |
Key: | E♭ Major |
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