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Play “O Love Divine, that stooped to share”
Free same-meter accompaniment for O Love Divine, that stooped to share (Oliver Wendell Holmes): 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.
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- 1O Love divine, that stooped to share
- Our sharpest pang, our bitt'rest tear!
- On Thee we cast each earth-born care;
- We smile at pain while Thou art near.
- 2Though long the weary way we tread,
- And sorrow crown each lingering year,
- No path we shun, no darkness dread,
- Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near.
- 3When drooping pleasure turns to grief,
- And trembling faith is changed to fear.
- The murmuring wind, the quivering leaf,
- Shall softly tell us, Thou art near.
- 4On Thee we rest our burdening woe,
- O Love divine, for ever dear!
- Content to suffer while we know,
- Living and dying, Thou art near.
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 O Love Divine, that stooped to share page.
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