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Play “O Still in Accents Sweet”
Free same-meter accompaniment for O Still in Accents Sweet (Samuel Longfellow): 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.
Sung here to ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1O still in accents sweet and strong
- Sounds forth the ancient word,
- "More reapers for white harvest fields,
- More laborers for the Lord."
- 2We hear the call; in dreams no more
- In selfish ease we lie,
- But, girded for our Father's work,
- Go forth beneath His sky.
- 3Where prophets' word, and martyrs' blood,
- And prayers of saints were sown,
- We, to their labors entering in,
- Would reap where they have strown.
- 4O Thou whose call our hearts has stirred,
- To do Thy will we come;
- Thrust in our sickles at Thy word,
- And bear our harvest home.
- 5Amen.
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 Still in Accents Sweet page.
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