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Play “Rejoicing at the Return of the Sabbath”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Rejoicing at the Return of the Sabbath (James Hutton): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
Sung here to OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1My opening eyes with rapture see
- The light of thy returning day;
- My thoughts, O God, ascend to thee
- While thus my early vows I pay.
- 2I yield my heart to thee alone,
- Nor would receive another guest:
- Eternal King, erect thy throne,
- And reign sole monarch in my breast.
- 3O, bid this trifling world retire,
- And drive each carnal thought away;
- Nor let me feel one vain desire,
- One sinful thought, through all the day.
- 4Then, to thy courts when I repair,
- My soul shall rise on joyful wing,
- The wonders of thy love declare,
- And join the strains which angels sing.
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 Rejoicing at the Return of the Sabbath page.
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