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Play “Lord of All Being, Throned Afar”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Lord of All Being, Throned Afar (Oliver Wendell Holmes): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 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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  1. 1Lord of all being, throned afar,
  2. Thy glory flames from sun and star;
  3. Center and soul of ev'ry sphere,
  4. Yet to each loving heart how near!
  5. 2Sun of our life, Thy quick'ning ray
  6. Sheds on our path the glow of day;
  7. Star of our hope, Thy softened light
  8. Cheers the long watches of the night.
  9. 3Our midnight is Thy smile withdrawn;
  10. Our noontide is Thy gracious dawn;
  11. Our rainbow arch, Thy mercy's sign;
  12. All, save the clouds of sin, are Thine.
  13. 4Lord of all life, below, above,
  14. Whose light is truth, whose warmth is love,
  15. Before Thy ever-blazing throne
  16. We ask no luster of our own.
  17. 5Grant us Thy truth to make us free,
  18. And kindling hearts that burn for Thee,
  19. Till all Thy living altars claim
  20. One holy light, one heav'nly flame.
  21. 6Amen.

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 Lord of All Being, Throned Afar page.

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