GENERAL HYMNS WALSALL. (C. M.) Sow = 5S. r ZEE1
![\new ChoirStaff <<
\new Staff { \clef treble \time 4/2 \partial 2 \key f \minor \set Staff.midiInstrument = "church organ" \omit Staff.TimeSignature \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \override Score.BarNumber #'transparent = ##t
\relative c'
<< { f2 | aes g4( f) c2 c' | bes4( aes) g2 f \fermata \bar"||" aes \break
f e f4( g) aes( bes) | c1. \bar"||" c2 | c c bes aes4( g) | \break
f2 bes4( aes) g2 \fermata \bar"||" c | f,4( e) f( g) aes( bes) g4. f8 | f1. \bar"|."} \\
{ c2 | c c c f | des bes aes f'
c bes c f | e1. es2 | es es es es |
des f es es | des f f e! | f1. } >>
}
\new Staff { \clef bass \key f \minor \set Staff.midiInstrument = "church organ" \omit Staff.TimeSignature
\relative c'
<< { aes2 | f f e aes | f e f c' |
aes bes aes f | g1. aes2| aes aes g aes |
aes des bes aes | aes des c4( des) bes2 | aes1.} \\
{ f,2 | f' aes, c f, | bes c f \fermata f |
aes g f des | c1. aes2 | c aes es' c |
des bes es \fermata aes, | des bes c4( bes) c2 | f,1. } >>
}
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\layout { indent = #0 }
\midi { \tempo 2 = 58 }](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/r/5/r59bzs1ka6zvamrn21nv18cxoy42v85/r59bzs1k.png)
J. G. Whittier, 1807–92.
O LORD, and Master of us all,
Whate’er our name or sign,
We own thy sway, we hear thy call,
We test our lives by thine.
2 Thou judgest us; thy purity
Doth all our lusts condemn;
The love that draws us nearer thee
Is hot with wrath to them;
3 Our thoughts lie open to thy sight;
And naked to thy glance
Our secret sins are in the light
Of thy pure countenance.
4 Yet weak and blinded though we be
Thou dost our service own;
We bring our varying gifts to thee,
And thou rejectest none.
5 To thee our full humanity,
Its joys and pains belong;
The wrong of man to man on thee
Inflicts a deeper wrong.
6 Who hates, hates thee; who loves, becomes
Therein to thee allied:
All sweet accords of hearts and homes
In thee are multiplied.
7. Apart from thee all gain is loss,
All labour vainly done;
The solemn shadow of the Cross
Is better than the sun.
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\new Staff { \clef treble \time 4/2 \key f \minor \set Staff.midiInstrument = "church organ" \omit Staff.TimeSignature
\relative c' { << { f1 f \bar"||" } \\ { des c } >> }
}
\new Lyrics \lyricmode { A -- men. }
\new Staff { \clef bass \key f \minor \set Staff.midiInstrument = "church organ" \omit Staff.TimeSignature
\relative c' { << { bes1 a } \\ { bes,1 f } >> }
}
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\layout { indent = #0 }
\midi { \tempo 2 = 58 }](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/n/7/n7rgqceyzdw2ke4us3nzrwpngqmiwti/n7rgqcey.png)
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