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 meHas made my heart within me burn,As I communed with thee.Thy earnest words have filled my soulAnd 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 nightIf I cannot commune with theeNor 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.