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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Everlasting Song (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.
Sung here to ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Earth has engross'd my love too long!
- 'Tis time I lift mine eyes
- Upward, dear Father, to thy throne,
- And to my native skies.
- 2There the blest man, my Saviour, sits;
- The God! how bright he shines!
- And scatters infinite delights
- On all the happy minds.
- 3Seraphs, with elevated strains,
- Circle the throne around;
- And move and charm the starry plains
- With an immortal sound.
- 4Jesus, the Lord, their harps employs;--
- Jesus, my love, they sing!
- Jesus, the life of both our joys,
- Sounds sweet from every string.
- 5Now let me mount and join their song,
- And be an angel too;
- My heart, my hand, my ear, my tongue,--
- Here's joyful work for you.
- 6I would begin the music here,
- And so my soul should rise:
- O for some heavenly notes to bear
- My passions to the skies!
- 7There ye that love my Saviour, sit,
- There I would fain have place,
- Among your thrones, or at your feet,
- So I might see his face.
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 The Everlasting Song page.
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