Tarry With Me

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Tarry with me, O my Savior! For the day is passing by

Author: Caroline L. Smith (1853)
Published in 257 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	COLLECTED WORKS OF JOHN CARTER, THE

Instrumental
	JOY TO THE WORLD

Handbells
	Advent Tidings

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1 Tarry with me, O my Savior,
For the day is passing by;
See, the shades of ev'ning gather,
And the night is drawing nigh.

Chorus:
Tarry with me, blessed Savior;
Leave me not till morning light:
For I'm lonely here without Thee:
Tarry with me thro' the night.

2 Many friends were gathered round me
In the bright days of the past;
But the grave has closed above them,
And I linger here the last. [Chorus]

3 Deeper, deeper grow the shadows,
Paler now the glowing west;
Swift the night of death advances;
Shall it be the night of rest? [Chorus]

4 Tarry with me, O my Savior;
Lay my head upon Thy breast
Till the morning; then awake me,
Morning of eternal rest. [Chorus]

Source: Christian Hymns: for every purpose in worship #81

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Author: Caroline L. Smith

Smith, Caroline Louisa, née Sprague, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, and married to the Rev. Charles Smith, pastor of the South Congregational Church, Andover. Mrs. Smith is the author of:— Tarry with me, O my Saviour. An Old Man's Prayer. Mrs. Smith's account of this hymn is "About the year 1853 [in the summer of 1852], I heard the Rev. Dr. H. M. Dexter preach a sermon on 'The Adaptedness of Religion to the Wants of the Aged.' I went home and embodied the thought in the hymn 'Tarry with me, 0 my Saviour!' I sent it to Mr. Hallock, for The Messenger. He returned it as 'not adapted to the readers of the paper.' Years after I sent it, without any signature, to the little Andover paper .... I send it to you in its original form, in a li… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Tarry with me, O my Savior! For the day is passing by
Title:	Tarry With Me
Author:	Caroline L. Smith (1853)
Meter:	8.7.8.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain