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Free same-meter accompaniment for Love to the Creatures is Dangerous (Isaac Watts): 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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- 1How vain are all things here below!
- How false, and yet how fair!
- Each pleasure hath its poison too,
- And every sweet a snare.
- 2The brightest things below the sky
- Give but a flattering light;
- We should suspect some danger nigh
- Where we possess delight.
- 3Our dearest joys, and nearest friends,
- The partners of our blood,
- How they divide our wavering minds,
- And leave but half for God!
- 4The fondness of a creature's love,
- How strong it strikes the sense!
- Thither the warm affections move,
- Nor can we call them thence.
- 5Dear Saviour, let Thy beauties be
- My soul's eternal food;
- And grace command my heart away
- From all created good.
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 Love to the Creatures is Dangerous page.
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