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Play “Day Dawns on the Night of the Grave”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Day Dawns on the Night of the Grave (Timothy Dwight): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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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- 1Shall man, O God of light and life,
- Forever moulder in the grave?
- Canst Thou forget Thy glorious work,
- Thy promise and Thy pow'r to save?
- 2Shall life revisit dying worms,
- And spread the joyful insect's wing!
- And, oh! shall man awake no more
- To see Thy face, Thy name to sing?
- 3Cease, cease, ye vain desponding fears!
- When Christ, our Lord, from darkness sprung,
- Death, the last foe, was captive led,
- And heav'n with praise and wonder rung.
- 4Him, the First-Fruits, His chosen sons
- Shall follow from the vanquished grave;
- He mounts His throne, the King of kings,
- His Church to quicken and to save.
- 5Faith sees the bright, eternal doors
- Unfold to make His children way;
- They shall be clothed with endless life,
- And shine in everlasting day.
- 6The trump shall sound, the dust awake;
- And from the tomb the slumb'rers spring;
- Through heav'n the joyful myriads rise,
- And hail their Savior and their King.
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 Day Dawns on the Night of the Grave page.
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