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Free same-meter accompaniment for Sympathy with the Afflicted (Philip Doddridge): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 5 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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- 1Father of mercies! send thy grace,
- All powerful from above,
- To form in our obedient souls
- The image of thy love.
- 2Oh, may our sympathizing breasts
- The generous pleasure know,
- Kindly to share in others' joy,
- And weep for others' woe!
- 3When the most helpless sons of grief
- In low distress are laid,
- Soft be our hearts their pains to feel,
- And swift our hands to aid.
- 4So Jesus looked on dying men,
- When throned above the skies;
- And 'mid the embraces of his God,
- He felt compassion rise.
- 5On wings of love the Saviour flew,
- To raise us from the ground,
- And made the richest of his blood
- A balm for every wound.
About this music
ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Sympathy with the Afflicted page.
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