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Free same-meter accompaniment for When, as returns this solemn day (Anna L. Barbauld): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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- 1When, as returns this solemn day,
- Man comes to meet his God,
- What rites, what honors shall he pay?
- How spread his praise abroad?
- 2From marble domes and gilded spires
- Shall clouds of incense rise?
- And gems, and gold, and garlands deck
- The costly sacrifice?
- 3Vain, sinful man! creation's Lord
- Thy offerings well may spare;
- But give thy heart, and thou shalt find
- Thy God will hear thy prayer.
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 When, as returns this solemn day page.
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