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Play “The Memorial of Our Absent Lord”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Memorial of Our Absent Lord (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 4 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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- 1Jesus is gone above the skies,
- Where our weak senses reach him not;
- And carnal objects court our eyes,
- To thrust our Saviour from our thought.
- 2He knows what wandering hearts we have,
- Apt to forget his lovely face;
- And, to refresh our minds, he gave
- These kind memorials of his grace.
- 3Let sinful sweets be all forgot,
- And earth grow less in our esteem;
- Christ and his love fill every thought;
- And faith and hope be fixed on him.
- 4While he is absent from our sight,
- 'Tis to prepare our souls a place,
- That we may dwell in heavenly light,
- And live for ever near his face.
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 Memorial of Our Absent Lord page.
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