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Free same-meter accompaniment for Immortal Love, for ever full (John Greenleaf Whittier): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 7 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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- 1Immortal Love, for ever full,
- For ever flowing free,
- For ever shared, for ever whole,
- A never ebbing sea.
- 2Our outward lips confess thy Name
- All other names above;
- Love only knoweth whence it came,
- And comprehendeth love.
- 3We may not climb the heavenly steeps
- To bring the Lord Christ down;
- In vain we search the lowest deeps,
- For Him no depths can drown:
- 4But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
- A present help is He;
- And faith has still its Olivet,
- And love its Galilee.
- 5The healing of His seamless dress
- Is by our beds of pain;
- We touch Him in life's throng and press,
- And we are whole again.
- 6Through Him the first fond prayers are said
- Our lips of childhood frame;
- The last low whispers of our dead
- Are burdened with His Name.
- 7O Lord, and Master of us all,
- Whate'er our name or sign,
- We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
- We test our lives by Thine.
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 Immortal Love, for ever full page.
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