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Free same-meter accompaniment for A Dying Savior (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 5 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
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- 1Stretched on the cross, the Saviour dies;
- Hark! His expiring groans arise!
- See, from His hands, His feet, His side,
- Runs down the sacred crimson tide!
- 2But life attends the deathful sound,
- And flows from every bleeding wound;
- The vital stream, how free it flows
- To save and cleanse His rebel foes!
- 3To suffer in the traitor's place,
- To die for man, surprising grace!
- Yet pass rebellious angels by--
- Oh why for man, dear Saviour, why?
- 4Can I survey this scene of woe,
- Where mingling grief and wonder flow;
- And yet my heart unmoved remain,
- Insensible to love or pain?
- 5Come, dearest Lord! Thy grace impart,
- To warn this cold, unfeeling heart;
- Till all its powers and passions move
- In melting grief and ardent love.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the A Dying Savior page.
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