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W. H. Monk

Abide with me! Fast falls the e-ven-tide; The dark-ness deep-ens; Lord, with me a - bide:

When other helpers

fail, and com-forts flee, Help of the help-less, O a bide with me.

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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 Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass a-

way;

Change and decay in all around I see;

triumph still, if Thou abide with me.

5 Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes, Shine through the gloom, and point me to O Thou who changest not, abide with me. the skies; [shadows flee; 3 I need Thy presence every passing hour; Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain What but Thy grace can foil the tempter's In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me. power?

VESPERI LUX 75, 5.

Henry Francis Lyte 1847

J. B. Dykes

WHEN the day of toil is done,
When the race of life is run,
Father, grant Thy wearied one

Rest for evermore!

2 When the strife of sin is stilled,
When the foe within is killed,
Be Thy gracious word fulfilled,
Peace for evermore!

3 When the darkness melts away
At the breaking of the day,
Bid us hail the cheering ray ;-
Light for evermore!

4 When the heart by sorrow tried
Feels at length its throbs subside,
Bring us, where all tears are dried,
Joy for evermore!

5 When for vanished days we yearn,
Days that never can return,
Teach us in Thy love to learn

Love for evermore!

6 When the breath of life is flown,
When the grave must claim its own,
Lord of life! be ours Thy crown-
Life for evermore!

John Ellerton 1871

Ho-ly Fa-ther. cheer our way With Thy love's per-pet-ual ray: Grant us ev-ery clos-ing day Light at even-ing-time.