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Free same-meter accompaniment for Man Mortal, and God Eternal (Isaac Watts): 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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- 1Through every age, eternal God,
- Thou art our rest, our safe abode:
- High was Thy throne ere heaven was made;
- Or earth Thy humble footstool laid.
- 2Long hadst Thou reigned ere time began,
- Or dust was fashioned into man:
- And long Thy kingdom shall endure.
- When earth and time shall be no more.
- 3But man, weak man, is born to die,
- Made up of guilt and vanity;
- Thy dreadful sentence, Lord, was just--
- "Return, ye sinners, to your dust."
- 4Death, like an overflowing stream.
- Sweeps us away; our life's a dream--
- An empty tale--a morning flower.
- Cut down and withered in an hour.
- 5Teach us, O Lord, how frail is man;
- And kindly lengthen out our spar,
- Till a wise care of piety
- Fit us to die and dwell with Thee.
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 Man Mortal, and God Eternal page.
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