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Free same-meter accompaniment for A Present Savior (John Greenleaf Whittier): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.
Sung here to ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1We may not climb the heav'nly steeps
- To bring the Lord Christ down;
- In vain we search the lowest deeps,
- For Him no depths can drown.
- 2But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
- A present help is He;
- And faith has still its Olivet,
- And love its Galilee.
- 3The healing of the seamless dress
- Is by our beds of pain;
- We touch Him in life’s throng and press,
- And we are whole again.
- 4O Lord and Master of us all,
- Whate’er our name or sign,
- We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
- We test our lives by Thine!
About this music
ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the A Present Savior page.
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