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Free same-meter accompaniment for Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow (S. Baring-Gould; Bernhard Severin Ingemann): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune HYFRYDOL (Rowland Hugh Prichard) 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 HYFRYDOL (Rowland Hugh Prichard), a 8.7.8.7 D tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Thro the night of doubt and sorrow
- Onward goes the pilgrim band,
- Singing songs of expectation,
- Marching to the promised land:
- Clear before us through the darkness
- Gleams and burns the guiding light;
- Brother clasps the hand of brother,
- Stepping fearless through the night.
- 2One the light of God's own presence
- O'er His ransomed people shed,
- Chasing far the gloom and terror,
- Brightening all the path we tread;
- One the object of our journey,
- One the faith which never tires,
- One the earnest looking forward,
- One the hope our God inspires;
- 3One the strain that lips of thousands
- Lift as from the heart of one,
- One the conflict, one the peril,
- One the march in God begun;
- One the gladness of rejoicing
- On the far eternal shore,
- Where the One Almighty Father
- Reigns in love for evermore.
- 4Onward, there, pilgrim brothers,
- Onward, with the cross our aid;
- Bear its shame, and fight its battle,
- Till we rest beneath its shade:
- Soon shall come the great awaking,
- Soon the rending of the tomb;
- Then the scattering of all shadows,
- And the end of toil and gloom.
About this music
HYFRYDOL — Rowland Hugh Prichard. 'HyFrydol' Rowland H. Prichard, 1830. Setting: "The English Hymnal", 1906.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The English Hymnal' 1906, Hymn 563. Arrangement - NOT PRICHARD per English hymnal, 1906 assume RV Williams; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow page.
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