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Free same-meter accompaniment for An Humble Offering to Jehovah (Nathaniel Parker Willis): 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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- 1The perfect world by Adam trod
- Was the first temple built by God;
- His fiat laid the corner-stone,
- And raised its pillars one by one.
- 2He hung its starry roof on high
- The broad expanse of azure sky;
- He spread its pavement, green and bright,
- And curtained it with morning light.
- 3The mountains in their places stood,
- The sea, the sky, and all "was good."
- And when its first pure praises rang,
- The "morning stars together sang."
- 4Lord, 'tis not ours to make the sea
- And earth and sky a house for thee;
- But in thy sight our offering stands,
- An humbler temple, "made with hands."
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 An Humble Offering to Jehovah page.
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