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Free same-meter accompaniment for At Even, Ere the Sun Was Set (Henry Twells): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 7 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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- 1At even, when the sun was set,
- The sick, O Lord, around Thee lay;
- O in what divers pains they met!
- O with what joy they went away.
- 2Once more 't is eventide, and we
- Oppress'd with various ills draw near;
- What if Thy form we cannot see?
- We know and feel that Thou art here.
- 3O Saviour Christ, our woes dispel;
- For some are sick, and some are sad.
- And some have never loved Thee well,
- And some have lost the love they had.
- 4And some have found the world is vain,
- Yet from the world they break not free,
- And some have friends who give them pain,
- Yet have not sought a friend in Thee.
- 5And none, O Lord, have perfect rest,
- For none are wholly free from sin;
- And they who fain would love Thee best
- Are conscious most of wrong within.
- 6O Saviour Christ, Thou too art Man;
- Thou hast been troubled, tempted, tried,
- Thy kind but searching glance can scan
- The very wounds that shame would hide.
- 7Thy touch has still its ancient power;
- No word from Thee can fruitless fall;
- Hear, in this solemn evening hour,
- And in Thy mercy heal us all.
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 At Even, Ere the Sun Was Set page.
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