fast with eventide the Abide me! falls

B216 C288 E370 K288 P370 R268 T370
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darkness the with the with flee,
Help abide me abide!
When other Abide falls helpless, me. Lord, with and helpers me! fast eventide;
The of fail deepens; comforts oh,
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not, out to Swift life’s see;
O with abide little me. I and decay glories joys ebbs Thou dim, day;
Earth’s pass grow its in who all close changest its away;
Change around
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for wings:
Tears not sinners, as kind a thus plea;
Come, healing good, abide all of woes, King kings;
But in Friend with with me. heart every in terrors, the for Come of and Thy
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passing foil the need power?
Who stay me. Thy can grace sunshine, and every hour:
What tempter’s Thy I guide but my Thyself with presence oh, be?
Through like abide and cloud can
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at is hand I tears abide bless:
Ills with bitterness:
Where with foe, no to sting? weight, thy still, me. triumph Thou death’s Thee where, victory?
I if fear no and have no grave,