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Play “Give to the Winds Thy Fears”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Give to the Winds Thy Fears (Paul Gerhardt; John Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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. 1Give to the winds thy fears,
  2. Hope and be undismayed;
  3. God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears,
  4. God shall lift up thy head.
  5. Through waves and clouds and storms
  6. He gently clears thy way;
  7. Wait thou His time; so shall this night
  8. Soon end in joyous day.
  9. 2Still heavy is thy heart?
  10. Still sink thy spirits down?
  11. Cast off the weight, let fear depart,
  12. And every care be gone.
  13. What though thou rulest not,
  14. Yet heaven and earth and hell
  15. Proclaim: God sitteth on the throne,
  16. And ruleth all things well.
  17. 3Leave to His sovereign sway
  18. To choose and to command:
  19. So shalt thou, wondering own, His way
  20. How wise, how strong His hand!
  21. Far, far above thy thought
  22. His counsel shall appear,
  23. When fully He the work hath wrought
  24. That caused thy needless fear.
  25. 4Thou seest our weakness, Lord,
  26. Our hearts are known to Thee:
  27. O lift Thou up the sinking hand,
  28. Confirm the feeble knee;
  29. Let us in life, in death,
  30. Thy steadfast truth declare,
  31. And publish with our latest breath
  32. Thy Love and guardian care!
  33. 5Amen.

About this music

ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Give to the Winds Thy Fears page.

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