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Free same-meter accompaniment for Come, blessed Spirit, source of light (Benjamin Beddome): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 4 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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- 1Come, blessed Spirit! source of light!
- Whose power and grace are unconfined,
- Dispel the gloomy shades of night
- The thicker darkness of the mind.
- 2To mine illumined eyes, display
- The glorious truths thy word reveals;
- Cause me to run the heavenly way,
- Thy book unfold, and loose the seals.
- 3Thine inward teachings make me know
- The mysteries of redeeming love,
- The vanity of things below,
- And excellence of things above.
- 4While through this dubious maze I stray,
- Spread, like the sun, thy beams abroad,
- To show the dangers of the way,
- And guide my feeble steps to God.
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 Come, blessed Spirit, source of light page.
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