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Free same-meter accompaniment for When I Can Read My Title Clear (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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 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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- 1When I can read my title clear
- To mansions in the skies,
- I bid farewell to ev'ry fear,
- And wipe my weeping eyes,...
- And wipe my weeping eyes.
- 2Should earth against my soul engage,
- And hellish darts be hurled,
- Then I can smile at Satan's rage,
- And face a frowning world,...
- And face a frowning world.
- 3Let cares like a wild deluge come,
- And storms of sorrow fall;
- May I but safely reach my home,
- My God, my heav'n, my all,...
- My God, my heav'n, my all.
- 4There shall I bathe my weary soul
- In seas of heav'nly rest,
- And not a wave of trouble roll
- Across my peaceful breast,...
- Across my peaceful breast.
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 When I Can Read My Title Clear page.
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