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Free same-meter accompaniment for When Gathering Clouds (Robert Grant): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes) 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 MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes), a 8.8.8.8.8.8 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1When gath'ring clouds around I view,
- And days are dark, and friends are few,
- On Him I lean who not in vain
- Experienced ev'ry human pain;
- He sees my wants, allays my fears,
- And counts and treasures up my tears.
- 2If aught should tempt my soul to stray
- From heav'nly wisdom's narrow way;
- To fly the good I would pursue,
- Or do the sin I would not do;
- Still He who felt temtation's pow'r,
- Shall guard me in that dang'rous hour.
- 3When sorr'wing o'er some stone I bend
- Which covers what was once a friend,
- And from his voice, his hand, his smile,
- Divides me for a little while;
- Thou, Savior, mark'st the tears I shed,
- For Thou didst weep o'er Lazarus dead.
- 4And, oh, when I have safely past
- Thro' ev'ry conflict but the last,
- Still, still unchanging, watch beside
- My painful bed, for Thou hast died;
- Then point to realms of cloudless day,
- And wipe the latest tear away.
About this music
MELITA — John Bacchus Dykes. 'Melita' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861. Setting: "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1869 hymn 222. Tune from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. %OHARRANGER unknown assumed Dykes, John Bacchus (1823-1876) words found in "The service of song for Baptist churches", 1876 Hymn 1070; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the When Gathering Clouds page.
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