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Play “The Grave Shall Restore Its Trust”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Grave Shall Restore Its Trust (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 3 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 OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Unvail thy bosom, faithful tomb;
- Take this new treasure to thy trust
- And give these sacred relics room
- To slumber in the quiet dust.
- 2Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear,
- Invades thy bounds; no mortal woes
- Can reach the peaceful sleeper here,
- While angels watch the soft repose.
- 3So Jesus slept; God's dying Son
- Passed through the grave, and blessed the bed:
- Rest here, blest saint, till from his throne
- The morning break, and pierce the shade.
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 The Grave Shall Restore Its Trust page.
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