He decided to pursue a medical career, although he also had an early interest in poetry. 4), and when we pass from this life to heaven's glory (st.
1), when everything seems to change and decay (st. The text is a prayer for God's abiding care when friends fail (st.
5), which Lyte himself was quickly I approaching. The text was inspired by Luke 24:29, in which the two travelers to Emmaus ask Jesus to "stay with us, for it is nearly evening." But "Abide with Me" is not a hymn for the evening of a day instead evening is a metaphor for the close of life, a transition from life's "little day" (st. The Psalter Hymnal also contains other alterations for example, stanza 4 originally read, "Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness." Most hymnals, including the Psalter Hymnal, customarily omit three of the original eight stanzas. First printed in a leaflet in 1847, the text was published posthumously in Lyte's Remains (1850). Nice, France, 1847) wrote this text in the late summer of 1847 he died in November of that year (various other stories about Lyte's writing of this text do not appear to be reliable).
Ednam, near Kelso, Rosburghshire, Scotland, 1793 d.
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