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Free same-meter accompaniment for For a Public Fast (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.

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  1. 1See, gracious God, before thy throne
  2. Thy mourning people bend
  3. 'Tis on thy sovereign grace alone,
  4. Our humble hopes depend.
  5. 2Tremendous judgements from thy hand
  6. Thy dreadful power display;
  7. Yet mercy spares this guilty land,
  8. And still we live to pray.
  9. 3Why is America thus spar'd,
  10. Ungrateful as we are!
  11. O make thy awful warnings heard,
  12. While mercy cries, "Forbear."
  13. 4Sinners regardless of thy frown,
  14. Their pleasures they require;
  15. And sink with gay indifference down,
  16. To everlasting fire.
  17. 5O turn us, turn us, mighty Lord,
  18. By thy resistless grace;
  19. Then shall our hearts obey thy word,
  20. And humbly seek thy face.

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 For a Public Fast page.

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