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Free same-meter accompaniment for Again, as evening's shadow falls (Samuel Longfellow): 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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- 1Again, as evening's shadow falls,
- We gather in these hallowed walls;
- And vesper hymn and vesper prayer
- Rise mingling on the holy air.
- 2May struggling hearts that seek release
- Here find the rest of God's own peace;
- And, strengthened here by hymn and prayer,
- Lay down the burden and the care.
- 3O God, our Light, to Thee we bow;
- Within all shadows standest Thou;
- Give deeper calm than night can bring;
- Give sweeter songs than lips can sing.
- 4Life's tumult we must meet again;
- We cannot at the shrine remain;
- But in the spirit's secret cell
- May hymn and prayer for ever dwell.
- 5Amen.
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 Again, as evening's shadow falls page.
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