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Free same-meter accompaniment for Retirement and Meditation (Philip Doddridge): 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.
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- 1Return, my roving heart, return,
- And life's vain shadows chase no more;
- Seek out some solitude to mourn,
- And thy forsaken God implore.
- 2O thou great God! whose piercing eye
- Distinctly marks each deep retreat,
- In these sequestered hours draw nigh,
- And let me here thy presence meet.
- 3Through all the windings of my heart,
- My search let heavenly wisdom guide;
- And still its beams unerring dart,
- Till all be known and purified.
- 4Then let the visits of thy love
- My inmost soul be made to share,
- Till every grace combine to prove
- That God has fixed his dwelling there.
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 Retirement and Meditation page.
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