Hymn tune
ST. PATRICKS BREASTPLATE
ST. PATRICKS BREASTPLATE is a hymn tune in Long Meter Double (8.8.8.8 D), composed by Charles V. Stanford (1852–1924) (1902). In a hymnal the tune has a name of its own, printed in capitals, because the same music carries many texts: any hymn written in its meter can be sung to it.
9 hymns in this library share its meter and can be sung to it.
The four-part harmony played here comes from the Open Hymnal Project's public-domain edition (copied from 'The English Hymnal', 1906 Hymn 212.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to ST. PATRICKS BREASTPLATE, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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Other texts in the same meter
- Sweet Hour of Prayer — Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer,
- Of the Glory of God in the Starry Heavens — The spacious firmament on high,
- Saved By Grace — Some day the silver cord will break,
- Supreme Love to Christ — My gracious Redeemer I love;
- Longing For Still Closer Communion — Thou Shepherd of Israel, and mine,
- The Heavenly Jerusalem — Away with our sorrow and fear!
- Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Gladness — Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness,
- Longing After Christ — I long to behold him arrayed
- Faith Triumphing — A debtor to mercy alone,