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Free accompaniment for Olive's Brow (William B. Tappan): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. CROSS (John Bacchus Dykes) 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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- 1'Tis midnight, and on Olive's brow
- The star is dimmed that lately shown:
- 'Tis midnight, in the garden now,
- The suff'ring Saviour prays alone.
- 2'Tis midnight, and from all removed,
- Immanuel wrestles lone with fears:
- E'en the disciple that He loved
- Heeds not his Master's grief and tears.
- 3'Tis midnight, and for others' guilt,
- The Man of Sorrows weeps in blood;
- Yet He that hath in anguish knelt
- Is not forsaken by His God.
- 4'Tis midnight, and from ether-plains
- Is borne the song that angels know:
- Unheard by mortals are the strains
- That sweetly soothe the Saviour's woe.
- 5Amen.
About this music
ST. CROSS — John Bacchus Dykes. 'St. Cross' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861. Setting: "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869 Hymn 100, composed for this hymnal. Can find the text in Gems of sacred poetry By William Bingham Tappan, 1860 edition; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Olive's Brow page.
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