1. Abide with me; ‘tis eventide.
The day is past and gone;
The shadows of the evening fall;
The night is coming on.
Within my heart a welcome guest,
Within my home abide.
O Savior, stay this night with me;
Behold, ‘tis eventide.
O Savior, stay this night with me;
Behold, ‘tis eventide.
2. Abide with me; ‘tis eventide.
Thy walk today with me
Has made my heart within me burn,
As I communed with thee.
Thy earnest words have filled my soul
And kept me near thy side.
O Savior, stay this night with me;
Behold, ‘tis eventide.
O Savior, stay this night with me;
Behold, ‘tis eventide.
3. Abide with me, ‘tis eventide,
And lone will be the night
If I cannot commune with thee
Nor find in thee my light.
The darkness of the world, I fear,
Would in my home abide.
O Savior, stay this night with me;
O Savior, stay this night with me;
O Savior, stay this night.
4. Abide with me, ‘tis eventide.
O stay by my ‘til day;
Thy perfect love to calm my fears;
Thy word to light the way.
I’ll walk now with my hand in thine;
My strength by grace supplied.
O Savior, stay this night with me;
Behold, ‘tis eventide.
O Savior, stay this night with me,
My Savior, Thou who died for me;
O may my soul abide in thee;
Behold, ‘tis eventide.
O Savior, stay with me this night.
Text: M. Lowrie Hofford
Music: Harrison Millard, arr. by Sherrie Boren
© 2013 by Sherrie Boren. This song may be copied for incidental, noncommercial church or home use.
