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Free same-meter accompaniment for Christian Love (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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 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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- 1Happy the heart where graces reign,
- Where love inspires the breast;
- Love is the brightest of the train,
- And strengthens all the rest.
- 2Knowledge, alas! 'tis all in vain,
- And all in vain our fear;
- Our stubborn sins will fight and reign,
- If love be absent there.
- 3'Tis love that makes our cheerful feet
- In swift obedience move;
- The devils know, and tremble too;
- But devils do not love.
- 4This is the grace that lives and sings
- When faith and hope shall cease;
- 'Tis this shall strike our joyful strings
- In the sweet, realms of bliss.
- 5Amen.
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 Christian Love page.
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