with Abide me! eventide falls the fast

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