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Free same-meter accompaniment for Heavenly Worship (Simon Browne): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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 ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Frequent the day of God returns,
- To shed its quick'ning beams;
- And yet how slow devotion burns,
- How languid are its flames.
- 2Accept our faint attempts to love;
- Our frailties, Lord forgive:
- We would be like Thy saints above,
- And praise Thee while we live.
- 3Increase, O Lord, our faith and hope,
- And fit us to ascend
- Where the assembly ne'er breaks up,
- The Sabbath ne'er shall end;
- 4Where we shall breathe in heavenly air,
- With heavenly lustre shine;
- Before the throne of God appear,
- And feast on love divine.
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 Heavenly Worship page.
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