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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Farewell (Philip Doddridge): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 6 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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  1. 1Ye golden lamps of heav’n! farewell,
  2. With all your feeble light;
  3. Farewell, thou ever-changing moon,
  4. Pale empress of the night!
  5. 2And thou refulgent orb of day,
  6. In brighter flames array’d;
  7. My soul, that springs beyond thy sphere
  8. No more demands thine aid.
  9. 3Ye stars are but the shining dust,
  10. Of my divine abode;
  11. The pavement of those heavenly courts,
  12. Where I shall reign with God.
  13. 4The Father of eternal light
  14. Shall there His beams display;
  15. Nor shall one moment’s darkness mix
  16. With that unvaried day.
  17. 5No more the drops of piercing grief,
  18. Shall swell into my eyes;
  19. Nor the meridian sun decline
  20. Amid those brighter skies.
  21. 6There all the millions of His saints
  22. Shall in one song unite,
  23. And each the bliss of all shall view,
  24. With infinite delight.

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 Farewell page.

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