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Play “So Fades the Blooming Flower”
Free same-meter accompaniment for So Fades the Blooming Flower (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 3 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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- 1So fades the lovely, blooming flower;
- Frail, smiling solace of an hour;
- So soon our transient comforts fly,
- And pleasure only blooms to die.
- 2Is there no kind, no healing art
- To soothe the anguish of the heart?
- Spirit of grace, be ever nigh;
- Thy comforts are not made to die.
- 3Let gentle patience smile on pain,
- Till dying hope revives again;
- Hope wipes the tear from sorrow's eye,
- And faith points upward to the sky.
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 So Fades the Blooming Flower page.
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