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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Promised Land (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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. 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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- 1Far from these narrow scenes of night,
- Unbounded glories rise,
- And realms of joy and pure delight,
- Unknown to mortal eyes.
- 2Fair, distant land! could mortal eyes
- But half its charms explore,
- How would our spirits long to rise,
- And dwell on earth no more!
- 3No cloud those blissful regions know,--
- Realms ever bright and fair;
- For sin, the source of mortal woe,
- Can never enter there.
- 4Oh, may the heavenly prospect fire
- Our hearts with ardent love,
- Till wings of faith and strong desire
- Bear every thought above.
- 5Prepare us, Lord, by grace divine,
- For thy bright courts on high;
- Then bid our spirits rise and join
- The chorus of the sky.
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 Promised Land page.
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