Abide with Me

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Rufus

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"Abide with Me" is a Christian hymn written by Scottish Anglican Henry Francis Lyte.

He wrote it in 1847 while he lay dying from tuberculosis; he survived only a further three weeks after its completion.

I find it beautiful that he wrote it only so short before dieing and it became the thing people remember him for. Truly, it captures the emotion of impending death.
 
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