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Play “Christ, of All My Hopes”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Christ, of All My Hopes (Ralph Wardlaw): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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.
Sung here to CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Christ of all my hopes the Ground,
- Christ, the Spring of all my joy,
- Still in Thee may I be found,
- Still for Thee my powers employ,
- Still for Thee my powers employ.
- 2Let Thy love my heart inflame;
- Keep Thy fear before my sight;
- Be Thy praise my highest aim;
- Be Thy smile my chief delight.
- 3Fountain of o'erflowing grace,
- Freely from Thy fullness give;
- Till I close my earthly race,
- May I prove it "Christ to live."
- 4Firmly trusting in Thy blood,
- Nothing shall my heart confound;
- Safely I shall pass the flood,
- Safely reach Emmanuel's ground.
- 5Thus, O thus, an entrance give
- To the land of cloudless sky;
- Having known it "Christ to live,"
- Let me know it "gain to die."
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Christ, of All My Hopes page.
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