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Play “Thou Only Solace in Sorrow”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Thou Only Solace in Sorrow (Thomas Moore): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 3 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. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1O thou who driest the mourner's tear!
- How dark this world would be
- If, when deceived and wounded here,
- We could not fly to thee!
- 2O, who would bear life's stormy doom,
- Did not thy wing of love
- Come, brightly wafting through the gloom
- Our peace-branch from above?
- 3Each sorrow, touched by thee, grows bright
- With more than rapture's ray,
- As darkness shows us worlds of light
- We never saw by 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 Thou Only Solace in Sorrow page.
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