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Play “Death of the Righteous”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Death of the Righteous (Mrs. Barbauld): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 5 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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- 1How blest the righteous when he dies!
- When sinks a weary soul to rest!
- How mildly beam the closing eyes!
- How gently heaves th’expiring breast!
- 2A holy quiet reigns around,
- A calm which life nor death destroys;
- And naught disturbs that peace profound
- Which his unfettered soul enjoys.
- 3Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears,
- Where lights and shades alternate dwell;
- How bright th'unchanging morn appears!
- Farewell, inconstant world, farewell!
- 4Life’s labor done, as sinks the clay,
- Light from its load the spirit flies,
- While heaven and earth combine to say,
- "How blest the righteous when he dies!"
- 5Amen.
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 Death of the Righteous page.
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