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Free same-meter accompaniment for Creation and Providence (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 7 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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  1. 1LORD, when our raptur'd thought surveys
  2. Creation's beauties o'er;
  3. All nature joins to teach thy praise,
  4. And bid our souls adore.
  5. 2Where'er we turn our gazing eyes,
  6. Thy radiant footsteps shine;
  7. Ten thousand pleasing wonders rise
  8. And speak their source divine.
  9. 3The living tribes of countless forms,
  10. In earth, and sea, and air;
  11. The meanest flies, the smallest worms
  12. Almighty pow'r declare.
  13. 4Thy wisdom, pow'r, and goodness, Lord,
  14. In all thy works appear:
  15. And O! let man thy praise record,
  16. Man, thy distinguish'd care!
  17. 5From thee the breath of life he drew;
  18. That breath thy pow'r maintains;
  19. Thy tender mercy, ever new,
  20. His brittle frame sustains.
  21. 6Yet nobler favors claim his praise,
  22. Of reason's light possess'd;
  23. By revelation's brightest rays,
  24. Still more divinely bless'd.
  25. 7On us thy providence has shone
  26. With gentle smiling rays:
  27. O, may our lips and lives make known
  28. Thy goodness and thy praise!

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 Creation and Providence page.

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