Abide With Me

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Composer
Malcolm Archer
Difficulty
Moderate radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_checked radio_button_unchecked radio_button_unchecked
Season
Lent Season After Pentecost Advent Easter Season General
Voicing(s)
SATB
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano]
Category
Anthems Evening Service
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

SATB with organ. A lovely setting of the hymn Eventide. Also works well for funerals. Also available for Unison or 2-part choir.

Audio
Lyrics

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.

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.

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.