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Free same-meter accompaniment for Eternity Anticipated (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 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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- 1Eternity is just at hand!--
- And shall I waste my ebbing sand;
- And careless view departing day,
- And throw my inch of time away?
- 2But an eternity there is
- Of endless wo, or endless bliss;
- And swift as time fulfils its round,
- We to eternity are bound.
- 3What countless millions of mankind
- Have left this fleeting world behind!
- They're gone! but where?--ah, pause and see,
- Gone to a long eternity.
- 4Sinner! canst thou for ever dwell
- In all the fiery deeps of hell;
- And is death nothing, then, to thee;
- Death, and a dread eternity?
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 Eternity Anticipated page.
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