 | Old Humphrey - Authors, English - 1799 - 338 pages
...following was one of his favourites : ' Abide with me ! Fast falls the eventide ; The darkness thickens : 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... | |
 | Christian life - 1876 - 352 pages
...garments among them, and upon My vesture did they cast lots."— Matthew xxvii. 35. -SDlre SSlalk ta "Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness...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... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...(adversus) flames ; the hollow (concavus) rocks shine with the opposite fires. EXERCISE IX. (Lyte). Abide with me : fast falls the even-tide : 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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...all reach of hope or help ; — And such in a storm is Appledore. HENRY FRANCIS LYTE. ABIDE WITH ME. 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... | |
 | 1881 - 510 pages
...confidence, " But / don't fear to launch away." Several times during the Sabbath she also repeated, " Abide with me, fast falls the eventide, The darkness deepens, Lord, with me abide." But a verse that appeared to be most frequently on her lips was, " Dear name ! the rock on which I... | |
 | 1880 - 304 pages
...better will they be appreciated ; — ABIDE with me, fast falls the eventide, The darkness thickens ; 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... | |
 | Literature - 1869 - 862 pages
...time — may properly close this long, but I hope not uninteresting series : — Abide with me; Cist falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with...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... | |
 | Theology - 1867 - 848 pages
...on, he handed to a member of his family the following verses, with his own music adapted to them : " Abide with me ! fast falls the eventide, The darkness deepens ; Lord, with me abide I When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, oh abide with me ! " Swift to its... | |
 | 822 pages
...better land ? " She then sang that beautiful hymn of Lyte's, which with her was a favourite— " Ahuie with me, fast falls the eventide ; The darkness deepens, Lord, with me abide," fee. About this time her husband, who had been sent for from business, came into the room ; as soon... | |
 | 1864 - 726 pages
...lines might 'uly, 1864. o have been written for the humble, despised Zacchceus : — " Abide with m« ; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide ! "When others helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, 0 abide with me! " Not a brief glance... | |
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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, O abide with me. 
