’Abide with Me’ by Military bands : Beating Retreat ceremony at Vijay Chowk, Delhi

Military bands play ’Abide with Me’ during Beating Retreat ceremony at Vijay Chowk, Delhi. “Abide with Me“ is a Christian hymn by Scottish Anglican Henry Francis Lyte most often sung to English composer William Henry Monk’s tune entitled “Eventide“. Lyte wrote the poem in 1847 and set it to music while he lay dying from tuberculosis; he survived only a further three weeks after its completion.