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Play “O could our thoughts and wishes fly”
Free same-meter accompaniment for O could our thoughts and wishes fly (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.
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- 1O could our thoughts and wishes fly,
- Above these gloomy shades,
- To those bright worlds beyond the sky,
- Where sorrow ne'er invades!
- 2There, joys unseen by mortal eyes,
- Or reason's feeble ray,
- In ever-blooming prospect rise,
- Exposed to no decay.
- 3Lord, send a beam of light divine,
- To guide our upward aim;
- With one reviving look of thine,
- Our languid hearts inflame.
- 4O then, on faith's sublimest wing,
- Our ardent souls shall rise,
- To those bright scenes where pleasures spring
- Immortal in the skies.
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 O could our thoughts and wishes fly page.
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