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Free same-meter accompaniment for Hushed Was the Evening Hymn (James Drummond Burns): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune DARWALL'S 148TH (John Darwall) 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.
Sung here to DARWALL'S 148TH (John Darwall), a 6.6.6.6.8.8 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Hushed was the evening hymn,
- The temple courts were dark;
- The lamp was burning dim
- Before the sacred ark;
- When suddenly a voice divine
- Rang thro' the silence of the shrine.
- 2The old man, meek and mild,
- The priest of Israel, slept;
- His watch the temple-child,
- The little Levite, kept;
- And what from Eli's sense was sealed
- The Lord to Hannah's son revealed.
- 3O give my Samuel's ear,
- The open ear, O Lord,
- Alive and quick to hear
- Each whisper of Thy word,
- Like him to answer at Thy call,
- And to obey Thee first of all.
- 4O give me Samuel's heart,
- A lowly heart, that waits
- Where in Thy house Thou art,
- Or watches at Thy gates;
- By day and night, a heart that still
- Moves at the breathing of Thy will.
- 5O give me Samuel's mind,
- A sweet unmurm'ring faith,
- Obedient and resigned
- To Thee in life and death;
- That I may read with child-like eyes
- Truths that are hidden from the wise.
About this music
DARWALL'S 148TH — John Darwall. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book with Hymnal', ULCA 1918 Hymn 68. Lyrics from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book, 1931 Hymn 11.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Hushed Was the Evening Hymn page.
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