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Free same-meter accompaniment for Strong Son of God (Alfred Tennyson): 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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- 1Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
- Whom we, that have not seen Thy face,
- By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
- Believing where we cannot prove;
- 2Our little systems have their day;
- They have their day and cease to be;
- They are but broken lights of Thee,
- And Thou, O Lord, art more than they.
- 3We have but faith: we cannot know;
- For knowledge is of things we see;
- And yet we trust it comes from Thee,
- A beam in darkness: let it grow.
- 4Let knowledge grow from more to more,
- But more of reverence in us dwell;
- That mind and soul, according well,
- May make one music as before.
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 Strong Son of God page.
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