Evening
Hymn 14.
Abide with me; fast falls the even-tide
¶Choose your part under Play voice to hear it alone, or let all four sound and sing yours. Concert key moves the whole hymn up or down to suit your voice.
Opening the music…
The Words
1Abide with me; fast falls the éven-tide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with mé abide;
When other helpers fail, and cómforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abíde with me.
2Swift to its close ebbs out life's líttle day;
Earth's joys grow dim, its glories páss away;
Change and decay in all aroúnd I see;
O Thou Who changest not, abíde with me.
3I need Thy presence every pássing hour;
What but Thy grace can foil the témpter's power?
Who like Thyself my guide and stáy can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abíde with me.
4I fear no foe with Thee at hánd to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bítterness;
Where is death's sting, where, grave, thy víctory?
I triumph still, if Thou abíde with me.
5Hold Thou Thy Cross before my clósing eyes;
Shine through the gloom, and point me tó the skies;
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shádows flee;
In life. in death, O Lord, abíde with me. Amen.
The Page It Came From
Where It Comes From
Read note by note from Hymns Ancient and Modern (Novello, London, 1861), and checked against the printed page. See that page in the scan of the book at the Internet Archive: open the page page 2.
First published in London in 1861. Every tune, harmony and text in it was printed by 1861, so all its writers died long before 1966, and the book is out of copyright in India and the USA.