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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Prospect Joyous (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.
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- 1And let this feeble body fail,
- And let it faint or die;
- My soul shall quit the mournful vale
- And soar to worlds on high:
- Shall join the disembodied saints
- And find its long-sought rest,
- That only bliss for which it pants,
- In my Redeemer's breast.
- 2In hope of that immortal crown
- I now the cross sustain,
- And gladly wander up and down,
- And smile at toil and pain:
- I suffer on my threescore years
- Till my Deliverer come,
- And wipe away His servant's tears,
- And take His exile home.
- 3O what hath Jesus bought for me!
- Before my ravished eyes
- Rivers of life divine I see,
- And trees of paradise!
- I see a world of spirits bright
- Who reap the pleasures there;
- They all are robed in spotless white,
- And conquering palms they bear.
- 4O what are all my sufferings here,
- If, Lord, thou count me meet
- With that enraptured host t'appear,
- And worship at Thy feet!
- Give joy or grief, give ease or pain,
- Take life or friends away,
- But let me find them all again
- In that eternal day.
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 Prospect Joyous page.
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