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Free same-meter accompaniment for Closing Conference (Charles Wesley): 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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- 1Blest be the dear, uniting love,
- That will not let us part!
- Our bodies may far off remove,
- We still are one in heart.
- 2Join'd in one spirit to our Head,
- Where he appoints, we go;
- And still in Jesu's footsteps tread,
- And shew his praise below.
- 3O may we ever walk in him,
- And nothing know beside,
- Nothing desire, nothing esteem,
- But Jesus crucify'd!
- 4Closer and closer let us cleave
- To his belov'd embrace;
- Expect his fulness to receive,
- And grace to answer grace.
- 5Partakers of the Saviour's grace,
- The same in mind and heart,
- Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
- Nor life, nor death can part.
- 6But let us hasten to the day
- Which shall our flesh restore;
- When death shall all be done away,
- And bodies part no more!
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 Closing Conference page.
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