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Play “Christ's Second Advent”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Christ's Second Advent (Reginald Heber): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1The Lord will come: the earth shall quake,
- The hills their fixèd seat forsake;
- And, withering from the vault of night,
- The stars withdraw their feeble light.
- 2The Lord will come: but not the same
- As once in lowly form He came,
- A silent Lamb to slaughter led,
- The bruised, the suffering, and the dead.
- 3The Lord will come: a dreadful form,
- With wreath of flame, and robe of storm,
- On cherub wings, and wings of wind,
- Anointed Judge of human-kind.
- 4Can this be He who wont to stray
- A pilgrim on the world's highway;
- By power oppress'd, and mock'd by pride?
- O God! is this the Crucified?
- 5Go, tyrants, to the rocks complain;
- Go, seek the mountain's cleft in vain;
- But faith, victorious o'er the tomb,
- Shall sing for joy, The Lord is come.
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 Christ's Second Advent page.
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