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Free same-meter accompaniment for In the Sanctuary (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 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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- 1Far from my thoughts, vain world, begone!
- Let my religious hours alone:
- Fain would mine eyes my Saviour see:
- I wait a visit, Lord, from thee.
- 2My heart grows warm with holy fire,
- And kindles with a pure desire:
- Come, my dear Jesus! from above,
- And feed my soul with heavenly love.
- 3Blest Saviour! what delicious fare,
- How sweet thine entertainments are!
- Never did angels taste, above,
- Redeeming grace and dying love.
- 4Hail, great Immanuel, all-divine!
- In thee thy Father's glories shine:
- Thou brightest, sweetest, fairest One
- That eyes have seen, or angels known!
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 In the Sanctuary page.
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