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Free same-meter accompaniment for O Thou, to Whose All-Searching Sight (John Wesley; Nicolaus Ludwig, Graf von Zinzendorf): 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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- 1O Thou to Whose all searching sight
- The darkness shineth as the light,
- Search, prove my heart; it pants for Thee;
- O burst these bonds, and set it free.
- 2Wash out its stains, refine its dross,
- Nail my affections to the Cross;
- Hallow each thought, let all within
- Be clean, as Thou, my Lord, art clean.
- 3If in this darksome wild I stray,
- Be Thou my Light, be Thou my Way;
- No foes, no violence I fear,
- No harm, while Thou, my God, art near.
- 4When rising floods my soul o'erflow,
- When sinks my heart in waves of woe,
- Jesus, Thy timely aid impart,
- And raise my head, and cheer my heart.
- 5Saviour, where'er Thy steps I see,
- Dauntless, untired, I follow Thee;
- O let Thy hand support me still,
- And lead me to Thy holy hill!
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 Thou, to Whose All-Searching Sight page.
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