Abide With Me Lyrics in Description Christian Hymns playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BD1B04EAC0152F4B 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 lifes little day; Earths joys grow dim; its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou who changest not, abide with me. I need Thy presence every passing hour. What but Thy grace can foil the tempters power? Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me. Words: Henry F. Lyte, 1847. Music: Eventide, William H. Monk, 1861. Mrs. Monk described the setting: "This tune was written at a time of great sorrow—when together we watched, as we did daily, the glories of the setting sun. As the last golden ray faded, he took some paper and penciled that tune which has gone all over the earth." Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847) William H. Monk (1823-1889) Lyte was inspired to write this hymn as he was dying of tuberculosis; he finished it the Sunday he gave his farewell sermon in the church he served so many years. The next day, he left for Italy to regain his health. He didnt make it, though—he died in Nice, France, three weeks after writing these words. Here is an excerpt from his farewell sermon: "O brethren, I stand here among you today, as alive from the dead, if I may hope to impress it upon you, and induce you to prepare for that solemn hour which must come to all, by a timely acquaintance with the death of Christ." choir Easter
