were directed at scripturally and evangelically minded audiences, his lyric gift was universally appreciated. The example of ‘Abide with me’ is instructive: intensely personal and contemplative, yet nationally popular—even being sung (always, after its publication in 1861, to W. H. Monk's tune, ‘Eventide’) on secular occasions such as at football matches, and especially, since 1927, at the English cup final." The 20th-century hymnologist Erik Routley referred to the "much-loved H. R. Lyte" who "though scriptural and evangelical in his emphases, always writes good literature and is rarely deserted by an exquisite lyric gift. Perhaps the centrally 'romantic' hymn of all hymns is the intensely personal yet, as it has proved, wholly universal hymn, 'Abide with me.'" Notes References Bibliography External links Text, MIDI, and piano score from HymnSite.com Catalogue of the library of H.F. Lyte Heaven Will Bring Me Sweeter Rest: Selected works of Henry Francis Lyte 1793 births 1847 deaths 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Scottish poets Church of England hymnwriters People educated at Portora Royal School 19th-century Scottish Episcopalian priests Scottish Episcopalian hymnwriters Scottish evangelicals Tuberculosis deaths in France People from Kelso, Scottish Borders 19th-century English Anglican priests Evangelical Anglican clergy