Abide With Me is one of my favorite hymns. I still remember a powerful scene with this hymn in A Bridge Too Far, a WWII film. Wounded, surrounded and trapped in enemy territory, a group of allied soldiers give a simple but stirring rendition of Abide With Me. In their time of despair this was their plea:
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;
The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide.
Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
So can we all call to Him in our time of despair and trouble. When we do then comes His answer "lo, I am with you always, even unto the end" (Matt. 28:20)
This arrangement is for trombone quartet
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