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Play “Come, Thou Desire of All the Saints”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Come, Thou Desire of All the Saints (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.
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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- 1Come, thou Desire of all thy saints!
- Our humble strains attend,
- While with our praises and complaints,
- Low at thy feet we bend.
- 2How should our songs, like those above,
- With warm devotion rise!
- How should our souls, on wings of love,
- Mount upward to the skies!
- 3Come, Lord! thy love alone can raise
- In us the heavenly flame;
- Then shall our lips resound thy praise,
- Our hearts adore thy name.
- 4Dear Saviour, let thy glory shine,
- And fill thy dwellings here,
- Till life, and love, and joy divine
- A heaven on earth appear.
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 Come, Thou Desire of All the Saints page.
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