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Abide with Me

Words by Henry F. Lyte (1793–1847) · Public domain

The words

  1. Stanza 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. Stanza 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. Stanza 3. Not a brief glance I ask, nor passing word,But as thou dwell’st with thy disciples, Lord,Familiar, condescending, patient, free,Come, not to sojourn, but abide with me!

  4. Stanza 4. I need thy presence ev’ry passing hour;What but thy grace can foil the tempter’s pow’r.Who, like thyself, my guide and stay can be?Thro’ cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me!

  5. Stanza 5. 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.

Text as printed in Christ in Song (Revised and Enlarged), 1908, no. 655. Public domain. www.praylock.com/hymnal/abide-with-me

About this text

Words
Henry F. Lyte, 1793–1847
Source
Christ in Song (Revised and Enlarged) (1908), no. 655. See the 1908 page
Credited in 1908 as
Henry F. Lyte
Public domain
Printed in 1908; the writer died in 1847, more than 100 years ago.

Notes on this text

  • Five of Lyte’s eight stanzas, as chosen in 1908.
  • Stanza 4, line 2 ends in a faint mark that reads as a full stop in the scan; many books print a question mark there.

Index entry: Hymnary.org. Checked against the page scan on .

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