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Free same-meter accompaniment for Nature With Open Volume Stands (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Nature with open volume stands
- To spread her Maker's praise abroad,
- And every labor of his hands
- Shows something worthy of a God;
- 2But in the grace that rescues man
- His brighter form of glory shines;
- Here on the cross 'tis fairest drawn
- In precious blood and crimson lines.
- 3O, the sweet wonders of that cross,
- Where Christ, the Saviour, loved and died!
- The noblest life my spirit draws
- From his dear wounds and bleeding side.
- 4I would forever speak his name
- In tones to mortal ears unknown,
- With angels join to praise the Lamb,
- And worship at his Father's throne.
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 Nature With Open Volume Stands page.
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