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Free same-meter accompaniment for Sun of my soul, Thou Savior Dear (John Keble): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 7 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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  1. 1Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,
  2. It is not night if Thou art near;
  3. O may no earth-born cloud arise
  4. To hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes.
  5. 2When the soft dews of kindly sleep
  6. My wearied eyelids gently steep,
  7. Be my last tho't, how sweet to rest
  8. Forever on my Savior's breast.
  9. 3Abide with me from morn till eve,
  10. For without Thee I cannot live;
  11. Abide with me when night is nigh,
  12. For without Thee I dare not die.
  13. 4If some poor wand'ring child of Thine
  14. Have spurned today the voice divine,
  15. Now, Lord, the gracious work begin;
  16. Let him no more lie down in sin.
  17. 5Watch by the sick; enrich the poor
  18. With blessings from Thy boundless store;
  19. Be every mourner's sleep tonight,
  20. Like infant's slumbers, pure and light.
  21. 6Come near and bless us when we wake,
  22. Ere through the world our way we take;
  23. And lead us by Thy hand of love
  24. Until we reach our home above.
  25. 7Amen.

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 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior Dear page.

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