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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Soul's Best Portion (Anne Steele): 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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- 1Almighty Maker of my frame,
- Teach me the measure of my days!
- Teach me to know how frail I am,
- And spend the remnant to thy praise.
- 2My days are shorter than a span,
- A little point my life appears;
- How frail at best is dying man!
- How vain are all his hopes and fears.
- 3Vain his ambition, noise, and show!
- Vain are the cares which rack his mind1
- He heaps up treasures mix'd with woe,
- And dies and leaves them all behind.
- 4O be a nobler portion mine;
- My God, I bow before thy throne,
- Earth's fleeting treasures I resign,
- And fix my hopes on thee alone.
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 Soul's Best Portion page.
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