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Play “The Horrors of the Second death”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Horrors of the Second death (James Montgomery): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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.
Sung here to ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Oh, where shall rest be found,
- Rest for the weary soul?
- 'Twere vain the ocean's depths to sound,
- Or pierce to either pole.
- 2The world can never give
- The bliss for which we sigh;
- 'Tis not the whole of life to live,
- Nor all of death to die.
- 3Beyond this vale of tears
- There is a life above,
- Unmeasured by the flight of years--
- And all that life is love.
- 4Here would we end our quest;
- Alone are found in Thee
- The life of perfect love, the rest
- Of immortality.
- 5Amen.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Horrors of the Second death page.
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