Showing posts with label Abide With Me. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 27, 2016

Abide With Me



ABIDE WITH ME ~Pipes & Drums Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.

Abide With Me, Hayley Westenra, Rugby

Abide With Me - Choir (Coral) - Lyrics
https://youtu.be/qTQoPg856Ow


Abide With Me (King's College Choir, Cambridge)
https://youtu.be/deJDkU6qiGE


Abide with Me

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Christian hymn. For other uses, see Abide with Me (disambiguation).
"Abide with Me"
Hymn
Abide with Me Sheet Music.png
The hymn set to "Eventide"
Written1847
Textby Henry Francis Lyte
Based onLuke 24:29
Meter10 10 10 10
Melody"Eventide" by William Henry Monk
Composed1861
"Abide with Me" is a Christian hymn by Scottish Anglican Henry Francis Lyte most often sung to English composerWilliam Henry Monk's tune entitled "Eventide".
Lyte wrote the poem in 1847 and set it to music while he lay dying from tuberculosis; he survived only a further three weeks after its completion.
The hymn was hugely popular in the trenches of the First World War, and sung by Nurse Edith Cavell the night before the Germans shot her for helping British soldiers to escape from occupied Belgium.
The song is a great favourite of the Royal Family and was played at the weddings of both George VI to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughter Elizabeth II to Prince Philip Mountbatten.

The hymn is a prayer for God to remain present with the speaker throughout life, through trials, and through death...