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Free same-meter accompaniment for A Warning From the Grave (Reginald Heber): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 3 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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- 1Beneath our feet and o'er our head
- Is equal warning given;
- Beneath us lie the countless dead,
- Above us is the heaven!
- Death rides on every passing breeze,
- And lurks in every flower;
- Each season hath its own disease,
- Its peril every hour!
- 2Our eyes have seen the rosy light
- Of youth's soft cheek decay;
- And fate descend in sudden night
- On manhood's middle day.
- Our eyes have seen the steps of age
- Halt feebly to the tomb;
- And yet shall earth our hearts engage,
- And dreams of days to come?
- 3Then, mortal, turn! thy danger know;
- Where'er thy foot can tread,
- The earth rings hollow from below,
- And warns thee of her dead!
- Turn, mortal, turn! thy soul apply
- To truths divinely given:
- The dead, who underneath thee lie,
- Shall live for hell or heaven!
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 Warning From the Grave page.
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