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Reste Avec Nous

Representative Text

1 Reste avec nous, Seigneur, le jour décline,
La nuit s’approche et nous menace tous;
Nous implorons ta présence divine:
Reste avec nous, Seigneur, reste avec nous!

2 En toi nos coeurs ont salué leur Maître,
En toi notre âme a trouvé son époux;
A ta lumière elle se rent renaître:
Reste avec nous, Seigneur, reste avec nous!

3 Les vains bonheurs de ce monde infidèle
N’enfantent rien que regrets ou dégoûts;
Nous avons soif d’une joie éternelle:
Reste avec nous, Seigneur, reste avec nous!

4 Dans nos combat si ta main nous délaisse,
Satan vainqueur nous tiendra sous ses coups;
Que ta puissance arme notre faiblesse:
Reste avec nous, Seigneur, reste avec nous!

5 Sous ton regard la joie est sainte et bonne,
Près de ton coeur les pleurs même sont doux,
Soit que ta main nous frappe ou nous couronne,
Reste avec nous, Seigneur, reste avec nous!

6 Et quand, au bout de pèlerinage,
Nous partirons pour le grand rendezvous,
Pour nous guider dans ce dernier passage,
Reste avec nous, Seigneur, reste avec nous!

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #14089

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 >

Translator: Francis Chaponniére

(no biographical information available about Francis Chaponniére.) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Reste avec nous, Seigneur, le jour décline
Title: Reste Avec Nous
English Title: Abide with me, fast falls the eventide
Author: Henry Francis Lyte (1847)
Translator: Francis Chaponniére (1881)
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Language: French
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

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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