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Free same-meter accompaniment for As Pants the Hart: 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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- 1As pants the hart for cooling streams
- When heated in the chase,
- So longs my soul, O God, for Thee,
- And Thy refreshing grace.
- 2For Thee, my God, the living God,
- My thirsty soul doth pine;
- O when shall I behold Thy face,
- Thou Majesty Divine!
- 3Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
- Trust God, and He'll employ
- His aid for thee, and change these sighs
- To thankful hymns of joy.
- 4Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
- Hope still; and thou shalt sing
- The praise of Him who is thy God,
- Thy health's eternal Spring.
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 As Pants the Hart page.
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