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Play “The Morning Light is Breaking”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Morning Light is Breaking (Samuel Francis Smith): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ELLACOMBE (Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle) 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 ELLACOMBE (Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle), a 7.6.7.6 D tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1The morning light is breaking,
- The darkness disappears;
- The sons of earth are waking
- To penitential tears;
- Each breeze that sweeps the ocean
- Brings tidings from afar
- Of nations in commotion,
- Prepared for Zion's war.
- 2See heathen nations bending
- Before the God we love,
- And thousand hearts ascending
- In gratitude above;
- While sinners, now confessing,
- The Gospel call obey
- And seek the Savior's blessing,
- A nation in a day.
- 3Blest river of salvation,
- Pursue thy onward way;
- Flow thou to ev'ry nation,
- Nor in thy richness stay;
- Stay not till all the lowly
- Triumphant reach their home;
- Stay not till all the holy
- Proclaim, The Lord is come!
- 4Amen.
About this music
ELLACOMBE — Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle. Setting: Presbyterian Hymnal, 1911.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Presbyterian Hymnal, Revised, 1911 Hymn 364.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Morning Light is Breaking page.
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