Abide With Me

Himno cristiano del compositor escocés Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847). Una oración para rogar a Dios que permanezca a nuestro lado durante toda la vida, y no nos abandone en la hora de nuestra muerte. Escrita por Lyte en 1847, cuando se estaba muriendo de tuberculosis, la mayoría de las veces se canta con la melodía "Eventide" del organista inglés William Henry Monk (1823-1889).

El primer verso alude a un pasaje de Lucas (24:29), "Quédate con nosotros, porque es tarde y el día está avanzado", y el penúltimo versículo se basa en el texto de 1 Corintios (15:55), "Oh muerte, ¿dónde está tu aguijón? Oh sepulcro, ¿dónde está tu victoria?".

Letra:

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.

Not a brief glance I beg, a passing word,

But as Thou dwell'st with Thy disciples, Lord,

Familiar, condescending, patient, free.

Come not to sojourn, but abide with me.

Come not in terror, as the King of kings,

But kind and good, with healing in Thy wings;

Tears for all woes, a heart for every plea.

Come, Friend of sinners, thus abide with me.

Thou on my head in early youth didst smile,

And though rebellious and perverse meanwhile,

Thou hast not left me, oft as I left Thee.

On to the close, O Lord, abide with me.

I need Thy presence every passing hour.

What but Thy grace can foil the tempter's power?

Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?

Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.

I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;

Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.

Where is death's sting? Where, grave, thy victory?

I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;

Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.

Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee;

In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

Versiones destacadas:

👉🏽 Victor 16506. Elizabeth Wheeler [#6, 10.1910]

👉🏽 Victor 87132. Alma Gluck & Louise Homer [#10, 06.1913]

Otras versiones:

👉🏽 Berliner 1759. Steve Porter (1897)

👉🏽 Berliner 4274. Haydn Quartet (1897)

👉🏽 Berliner 01031. J.J. Fisher (1900)

👉🏽 Columbia 31360. Steve Porter (1901)

👉🏽 Columbia 1603. Henry Burr (1903)

👉🏽 Columbia 32317. Henry Burr (1904) 🔊

👉🏽 Columbia 3516. George Alexander (1906)

👉🏽 Columbia 2589. Henry Burr (1917)

👉🏽 Edison 5019. Frank C. Stanley (1902)

👉🏽 Edison 10180. Albert Benzler (1909)

👉🏽 Edison 1545. Frank Croxton Quartet (1912)

👉🏽 Edison 28178. Christine Miller (1913)

👉🏽 Edison 80177. Christine Miller (1913)

👉🏽 Edison  80276. Elizabeth Wheeler & Thomas Chalmers (1915)

👉🏽 Edison 2798. Elizabeth Wheeler & Thomas Chalmers (1916)

👉🏽 Edison 80623. Marjorie Harcum (1920)

👉🏽 Edison 80827. Frederick Kinsley (1925)

👉🏽 Victor 2633. Richard Jose (1904)

👉🏽 Victor 87076. Geraldine Farrar (1911)

👉🏽 Victor 17782. Elsie Baker & Olive Kline (1914)

👉🏽 Zonophone 9258. Haydn Quartet (1900)

👉🏽 Zonophone 9558. J.J. Fisher (1901)

👉🏽 Zonophone 5990. Criterion Quartet (1904)

👉🏽 Zonophone 4020. Edward T. King (1909)

👉🏽 Columbia (UK) 6025. Margaret Lewys (1908)

👉🏽 Columbia (UK) 301. Carrie Herwin (1911)

👉🏽 Columbia (UK) 7101. Clara Butt (1915)

👉🏽 Everlasting 233. Frank C. Stanley (1908)

👉🏽 Indestructible 1085. Henry Burr (1909)

👉🏽 Gramophone 4-2091. Evan Williams (1910)

👉🏽 Gramophone (UK) 03179. Clara Butt (1910)