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Free same-meter accompaniment for Rising to God (Thomas Gibbons): 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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- 1Now let our souls, on wings sublime,
- Rise from the vanities of time,
- Draw back the parting vail, and see
- The glories of eternity.
- 2Born by a new celestial birth,
- Why should we grovel here on earth?
- Why grasp at transitory toys,
- So near to heaven's eternal joys?
- 3Shall aught beguile us on the road,
- When we are walking back to God?
- For strangers into life we come,
- And dying is but going home.
- 4To dwell with God--to feel his love,
- Is the full heaven enjoyed above;
- And the sweet expectation now
- Is the young dawn of heaven below.
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 Rising to God page.
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