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Free same-meter accompaniment for At the Funeral of a Young Person (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 6 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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- 1When blooming youth is snatch'd away
- By death's resistless hand,
- Our hearts the mournful tribute pay
- Which pity must demand.
- 2While pity prompts the rising sigh,
- O may this truth, imprest
- With awful power,--'I too must die!'
- Sink deep in every breast.
- 3Let this vain world engage no more;
- Behold the gaping tomb!
- It bids us seize the present hour:
- To-morrow death may come.
- 4The voice of this alarming scene,
- May every heart obey;
- Nor be the heavenly warning vain,
- Which calls to watch and pray.
- 5Oh, let us fly--to Jesus fly,
- Whose powerful arm can save;
- Then shall our hopes ascend on high,
- And triumph o'er the grave.
- 6Great God! thy sovereign grace impart,
- With cleansing, healing power;
- This only can prepare the heart
- For death's surprising hour.
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 At the Funeral of a Young Person page.
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