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Play “Funeral of a Youth”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Funeral of a Youth (Samuel Wesley): 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.
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- 1The morning flow'rs display their sweets,
- And gay their silken leaves unfold,
- As careless of the noon-day heats
- And fearless of the ev'ning cold.
- 2Nipt by the wind's untimely blast,
- Parch'd by the sun's directer ray,
- The momentary glories waste,
- The short-liv'd beauties die away.
- 3So blooms the human face divine,
- When youth its pride and beauty shows;
- Fairer than spring the colours shine
- And sweeter than the virgin rose.
- 4O worn by slowly rolling years,
- Or broke by sickness in a day,
- The fading glory disappears,
- The short-liv'd beauties die away.
- 5Yet these, new-rising from the tomb,
- With lustre brighter far shall shine;
- Revive with ever-during bloom,
- Safe from diseases and decline.
- 6Let sickness blast and death devour,
- If heav'n must recompense our pains;
- Perish the grass, and fade the flow'r,
- If firm the word of God remains.
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 Funeral of a Youth page.
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