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Play “Light of the World, We Hail Thee”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Light of the World, We Hail Thee (John S. B. Monsell): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ELLACOMBE (Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle) 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 ELLACOMBE (Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle), a 7.6.7.6 D tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1Blest Light of the world, we hail Thee,
  2. Now flushing the eastern skies;
  3. Nor ever shall darkness vail Thee
  4. Again from our mortal eyes.
  5. Alas! far too long withholden,
  6. Now spread from shore to shore;
  7. Thy radiance, so glad, so golden,
  8. Shall set on the earth no more.
  9. 2Fair Light of the world, Thy beauty
  10. Shall steal into every heart;
  11. It sweetly adorns with duty
  12. Life’s poorest and lowliest part;
  13. Thou robest in matchless splendor
  14. The simple ways of men,
  15. And helpest them all to render
  16. That light back to Thee again.
  17. 3Mild Light of the world, before Thee
  18. In homage we humbly fall;
  19. We worship, we magnify Thee,
  20. Lord Jesus, the life of all,
  21. With whom there is no forgetting
  22. Of all Thine hand hath made;
  23. Whose rising shall have no setting,
  24. Whose sunshine shall have no shade.
  25. 4Clear Light of the world, illumine
  26. Thine sin-darkened world of Thine
  27. Until everything that’s human
  28. Is filled with a light divine,
  29. Until every tongue and nation
  30. From sin’s dominion free,
  31. Arise in the new creation
  32. That springeth from love and Thee.

About this music

ELLACOMBE — Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle. Setting: Presbyterian Hymnal, 1911.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Presbyterian Hymnal, Revised, 1911 Hymn 364.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Light of the World, We Hail Thee page.

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