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Free same-meter accompaniment for Gratitude (Mrs. Barbauld): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 3 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 sacred tie that binds
- In sweet communion kindred minds!
- How swift the heav'nly course they run,
- Whose hearts, whose faith, whose hopes are one.
- 2To each the soul of each how dear!
- What tender love! what holy fear!
- How does the gen'rous flame within
- Refine from earth and cleanse from sin!
- 3Their streaming eyes together flow
- For human guilt and human woe;
- Their ardent prayers together rise,
- Like mingling flames in sacrifice.
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 Gratitude page.
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