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Free same-meter accompaniment for O Where Are Kings and Empires Now? (A. Cleveland Coxe): 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 where are kings and empires now
- Of old, that went and came?
- But, Lord, Thy Church is praying yet,
- A thousand years the same.
- 2We mark her goodly battlements,
- And her foundations strong;
- We hear within the solemn voice
- Of her unending song.
- 3For not like kingdoms of the world
- Thy holy Church, O God,
- Though earthquake shocks are threatening her,
- And tempest are abroad;
- 4Unshaken as eternal hills,
- Immovable she stands,
- A mountain that shall fill the earth,
- A house not made by hands.
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 Where Are Kings and Empires Now? page.
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