Abide With Me
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Easy
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Instrumental Only?
No
Description
Unison (optional 2-part equal voices, with optional 4-part verse) choir and organ.
A setting of WH Monk's hymn-tune Eventide.
Also good for Evening services and funerals. Also available for SATB.
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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.