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Play “One Sweetly Solemn Thought”
Free same-meter accompaniment for One Sweetly Solemn Thought (Phoebe Cary): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) in four-part harmony, 6 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. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1One sweetly solemn thought
- Comes to me o'er and o'er,--
- Nearer my home, today am I
- Than e'er I've been before.
- 2Nearer my Father's house,
- Where many mansions be;
- Nearer today the great white throne,
- Nearer the crystal sea.
- 3Nearer the bound of life
- Where burdens are laid down;
- Nearer to leave the heavy cross;
- Nearer to gain the crown.
- 4But lying darkly between,
- Winding down through the night,
- There rolls the silent unknown stream
- That leads at last to light.
- 5E'en now, perchance, my feet
- Are slipping on the brink,
- And I today am nearer home,--
- Nearer than now I think.
- 6Father, perfect my trust;
- Strengthen my spirit's faith;
- Nor let me stand at last alone
- Upon the shores of death.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the One Sweetly Solemn Thought page.
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