Reste Avec Moi

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1 Reste avec moi! C’est l’heure où le jour baisse.
L’ombre grandit…Seigneur, attarde-toi!
Tous les appuis manquent à ma faiblesse:
Force du faible, ô Christ, reste avec moi!

2 Le flot des jours rapidement s’écoule;
Leur gloire est vaine et leur bonheur déçoit;
Tout change et meurt, tout chancelle et s’écroule…
Toi qui ne changes point, reste avec moi!

3 J’ose implorer plus qu’un regard qui passe;
Viens, comme à tes disciples, autrefois,
Plein de douceur, de tendresse et de grâce,
Et pour toujours, Seigneur, reste avec moi!

4 Heure après heure, il me faut ta présence!
Le tentateur ne redoute que toi;
Qui donc prendrait contre lui ma défense?
Dans l’ombre ou la clarté, reste avec moi!

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #14088

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Translator: Ruben Saillens

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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First Line: Reste avec moi! C’est l’heure où le jour baisse
Title: Reste Avec Moi
English Title: Abide with me, fast falls the eventide
Author: Henry Francis Lyte (1847)
Translator: Ruben Saillens
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Language: French
Copyright: Public Domain
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EVENTIDE (Monk)

According to some sources, William H. Monk (PHH 332) wrote EVENTIDE for Lyte's text in ten minutes. As the story goes, Monk was attending a hymnal committee meeting for the 1861 edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern of which he was music editor. Realizing that this text had no tune, Monk sat down at t…

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