| Old Humphrey - Authors, English - 1799 - 338 pages
...the twilight, he would ask me to repeat to him a hymn. The following was one of his favourites : ' Abide with me ! Fast falls the eventide ; The darkness...helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, oh ! abide with me. ' Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories... | |
| Christian life - 1876 - 352 pages
...Matthew xxvii. 35. -SDlre SSlalk ta "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, oh abide with me." N no page of history is there recorded so thrilling a narrative as that by the evangelist... | |
| 1859 - 632 pages
...find, among her papers, a copy of verses by the late Rev. 1. Lyte, and asked to have them read. " ' Abide with me! fast falls the eventide; The darkness thickens : Lord, with «* abide 1 When other helpers fail, and comforts IK, Help of the helpless, oh abide with mel " * Swift... | |
| Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...opposite fires. EXERCISE IX. (Lyte). Abide with me : fast falls the even-tide : The darkness deepens ; Lord, with me abide. When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, 0 abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day : Earth's joys grow dim, its glories... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Appledore. HENRY FRANCIS LYTE. ABIDE WITH ME. 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, oh, abide with me! Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim; its glories... | |
| 1880 - 304 pages
...will not he the less for that ; for the more they are read the better will they be appreciated ; — ABIDE with me, fast falls the eventide, The darkness...helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, 0 abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day, Earth's joys grow dim, its glories... | |
| Literature - 1869 - 862 pages
...I hope not uninteresting series : — Abide with me; Cist falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helplesu, 0 abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim, its... | |
| Baptists - 1744 - 726 pages
...one of his favourites. • Abide with me I Fast falls the eventide ; The darkness thickens : Lord 1 with me abide ; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of tliu helpless, O abide with me I Swift to Its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim,... | |
| 1854 - 672 pages
...the twilight, he would ask me to repeat to him a hymn, and the following was one of his favourites : 'Abide with me ! Fast falls the eventide ; The darkness thickens : Lord! with me abide ; When other helpe.s fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me I ' Swift to its close ebbs... | |
| Covenant hymns, Hymnals - 1849 - 316 pages
...presence I can conquer, I can suffer, I can die ; Far from thee I faint and languish, 367. Luke xxiv. 29. ABIDE with me ! fast falls the eventide, The darkness thickens, Lord, with me ahide ; When earthly helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me ! 2 Swift... | |
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