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Free same-meter accompaniment for A Morning Hymn (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 4 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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- 1God of the morning, at thy voice
- The cheerful sun makes haste to rise,
- And like a giant doth rejoice
- To run his journey through the skies.
- 2O, like the sun may I fulfill
- The appointed duties of the day;
- With ready mind and active will,
- March on, and keep my heavenly way.
- 3Lord, thy commands are clean and pure,
- Enlightening our beclouded eyes;
- Thy threatenings just, thy promise sure;
- Thy gospel makes the simple wise.
- 4Give me thy counsels for my guide,
- And then receive me to thy bliss;
- All my desires and hopes beside
- Are faint and cold compared with this.
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 Morning Hymn page.
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