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Free same-meter accompaniment for Death and Eternity (Isaac Watts): 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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  1. 1Stoop down, my thoughts, that us'd to rise,
  2. Converse a while with death;
  3. Think how a gasping mortal lies,
  4. And pants away his breath.
  5. 2His quivering lip hangs feebly down,
  6. His pulses faint and few,
  7. Then, speechless, with a doleful groan
  8. He bids the world adieu.
  9. 3But, O the soul that never dies!
  10. At once it leaves the clay!
  11. Ye thoughts, pursue it where it flies,
  12. And track its wondrous way.
  13. 4Up to the courts where angels dwell,
  14. It mounts triumphing there;
  15. Or devils plunge it down to hell
  16. In infinite despair.
  17. 5And must my body faint and die?
  18. And must this soul remove?
  19. O for some guardian angel nigh,
  20. To bear it safe above!
  21. 6Jesus, to thy dear faithful hand
  22. My naked soul I trust,
  23. And my flesh waits for thy command
  24. To drop into my dust.

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 Death and Eternity page.

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