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Play “This Is the Day of Light”

Free same-meter accompaniment for This Is the Day of Light (John Ellerton): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1This is the day of light:
  2. Let there be light to-day;
  3. O Dayspring, rise upon our night,
  4. And chase its gloom away.
  5. 2This is the day of rest:
  6. Our failing strength renew;
  7. On weary brain and troubled breast
  8. Shed Thou Thy fresh'ning dew.
  9. 3This is the day of peace:
  10. Thy peace our spirits fill;
  11. Bid Thou the blasts of discord cease,
  12. The waves of strife be still.
  13. 4This is the first of days;
  14. Send forth Thy quickening breath,
  15. And wake dead souls to love and praise,
  16. O Vanquisher of death!
  17. 5Amen.

About this music

ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the This Is the Day of Light page.

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