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Play “These things shall be, a loftier race”
Free same-meter accompaniment for These things shall be, a loftier race (John Addington Symonds): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 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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- 1These things shall be! a loftier race
- Than e'er the world hath known shall rise,
- With flame of freedom in their souls
- And light of knowledge in their eyes.
- 2They shall be gentle, brave, and strong
- To spill no drop of blood, but dare
- All that may plant man's lordship firm
- On earth, and fire, and sea, and air.
- 3Nation with nation, land with land,
- Inarmed shall lived as comrades free;
- In every heart and brain shall throb
- The pulse of one fraternity.
- 4Man shall love man with heart as pure
- And fervent as the young-eyed joys
- Who chant their heavenly songs before
- God's face with undiscordant noise.
- 5New arts shall bloom of loftier mould,
- And mightier music thrill the skies,
- And every life shall be a song,
- When all the earth is paradise.
- 6There shall be no more sin, nor shame,
- Though pain and passion may not die;
- For man shall be at one with God
- In bonds of firm necessity.
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 These things shall be, a loftier race page.
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