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Free same-meter accompaniment for Look from Thy Sphere (William Cullen Bryant): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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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- 1Look from Thy sphere of endless day,
- O God of mercy and of might!
- In pity look on those who stray,
- Be-nighted in this land of light.
- 2In peopled vale, in lonely glen,
- In crowded mart, by stream or sea;
- How many of the sons of men
- Hear not the message sent from Thee!
- 3Send forth Thy heralds, Lord, to call
- The tho'tless young, the hardened old,
- A scattered, homeless flock till all
- Be gathered to Thy peaceful fold.
- 4Send them Thy mighty word, to speak
- Till faith shall dawn, and doubt depart;
- To awe the bold, to stay the weak,
- And bind and heal the broken heart.
- 5Then all these wastes, a dreary scene
- That make us sadden as we gaze,
- Shall grow, with living waters, green,
- And lift to heav'n the voice of praise.
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 Look from Thy Sphere page.
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