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Free same-meter accompaniment for Keep Me Calm (Horatius Bonar): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.
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- 1Calm me, my God, and keep me calm,
- Reclining on Thy breast;
- Soothe me with holy hymn and psalm,
- And bid my spirit rest.
- 2Yes, keep me calm, tho' loud and rude
- The sounds my ear that greet,
- Calm in the closet's solitude,
- Calm in the bustling street;
- 3Calm in the hour of buoyant health,
- Calm in the hour of pain,
- Calm in my poverty or wealth,
- Calm in my loss or gain;
- 4Calm in the sufferance of wrong,
- Like Him who bore my shame;
- Calm 'mid the threat'ning, taunting throng,
- Who hate Thy holy name;
- 5Calm as the ray of sun or star,
- Which storms assail in vain,
- Moving unruffled thro' earth's war,
- Th' eternal calm to gain.
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 Keep Me Calm page.
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