Misc Praise Songs – O Beauty Ever Ancient (Guitar)

Key
-

Auto-scroll

Chords

Based on a prayer from St. Augustine's Confessions [Verse 1]
C   G           C       Am7
Oh, late have I loved you,

    Em          C
Oh, late have I turned;

Am7         G       C      Am7
turned from seeking you in creatures,

        Em        C        G
fleeing grief and pain within.
[Refrain]
  G            Em         Am      G/B  Am/C
O Beauty, ever ancient, O Beauty, ever new:

Am       G      Bm    Em   C  F
You, the mirror of my life renewed,

Em             C       G
let me find my life in you!
[Verse 2]
C    G            C       Am7
My unloveliness I ran from,

          Em              C
turned to seek You in all things,

Am7        G         C    Am7
things you fashioned as a pathway;

       Em     C      G
yet I lost myself in them.
[Refrain]
  G            Em         Am      G/B  Am/C
O Beauty, ever ancient, O Beauty, ever new:

Am       G      Bm    Em   C  F
You, the mirror of my life renewed,

Em             C       G
let me find my life in you!
[Verse 3]
C       G             C      Am7
This created world is glorious,

       Em               C
yet I could not see within,

Am7      G       C     Am7
see Your loveliness behind all,

         Em    C      G
find the Giver in the gift.
[Refrain]
  G            Em         Am      G/B  Am/C
O Beauty, ever ancient, O Beauty, ever new:

Am       G      Bm    Em   C  F
You, the mirror of my life renewed,

Em             C       G
let me find my life in you!
[Verse 4]
C     G                C    Am7
I had wandered far, perceiving

       Em               C
that I walked my road alone.

Am7     G           C          Am7
Yet You called, you shone, you summoned,

        Em      C      G
and You drew my spirit home.
[Refrain]
  G            Em         Am      G/B  Am/C
O Beauty, ever ancient, O Beauty, ever new:

Am       G      Bm    Em   C  F
You, the mirror of my life renewed,

Em             C       G
let me find my life in you!
[Verse 5]
C       G              C     Am7
In Your loveliness You made me,

        Em          C
in your Godly image true;

Am7     G         C      Am7
by Your grace You have renewed me;

       Em      C       G
let me live my life in You!
[Refrain]
  G            Em         Am      G/B  Am/C
O Beauty, ever ancient, O Beauty, ever new:

Am       G      Bm    Em   C  F
You, the mirror of my life renewed,

Em             C       G
let me find my life in you!