GEORGE POPE MORRIS.
ABIDE WITH ME.
"Abide With Me" (Henry Francis Lyte, 1793-1847) appeals to our natural
longing for the unchanging and to our love of security.
Abide with me! fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide!
When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see:
O Thou who changest not, abide with me!
HENRY FRANCIS LYTE.
LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT
"Lead, Kindly Light," by John Henry Newman (1801-90), was written when
Cardinal Newman was in the stress and strain of perplexity and mental
distress and bodily pain. The poem has been a star in the darkness to
thousands. It was the favourite poem of President McKinley.
Lead, kindly Light, amid th' encircling gloom,
Lead Thou me on,
The night is dark, and I am far from home,
Lead Thou me on.
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