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Free same-meter accompaniment for Life of the Soul (Anne Steele): 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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- 1When sins and fear, prevailing, rise,
- And fainting hope almost expires,
- To thee, O Lord, I lift my eyes;
- To thee I breathe my soul's desires.
- 2Art thou not mine, my living Lord?
- And can my hope, my comfort die?
- 'Tis fixed on thine almighty word
- That word which built the earth and sky.
- 3If my immortal Saviour lives,
- Then my immortal life is sure;
- His word a firm foundation gives;
- Here may I build and rest secure.
- 4Here, O my soul, thy trust repose;
- If Jesus is for ever mine,
- Not death itself that last of foes
- Shall break a union so divine.
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 Life of the Soul page.
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