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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Saint's Trial and Safety (Isaac Watts): 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.
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- 1Unshaken as the sacred hill,
- And firm as mountains be,
- Firm as a rock the soul shall rest
- That leans, O Lord, on thee.
- 2Not walls nor hills could guard so well
- Old Salem's happy ground,
- As those eternal arms of love
- That every saint surround.
- 3While tyrants are a smarting scourge
- To drive them near to God,
- Divine compassion does allay
- The fury of the rod.
- 4Deal gently, Lord, with souls sincere,
- And lead them safely on
- To the bright gates of Paradise,
- Where Christ their Lord is gone.
- 5But if we trace those crooked ways
- That the old serpent drew,
- The wrath that drove him first to hell
- Shall smite his followers too.
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 Saint's Trial and Safety page.
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