♪♪♪ SING ALONG ♪♪♪ as a piano plays the chords and melody (from the SOLO Edition of the Secular Hymnal). Singing along to a simple, chorded melody like this is an ideal way to develop your harmonizing skills!

Lyrics:

There is an empty box that some would throw away
But others find great beauty inside it ev'ry day
Although we may not see it, let's all of us agree:
What people see as beauty must be allowed to be

 


Here's the same hymn in 4-part harmony (from the SATB Edition of the Secular Hymnal). If you and your choir prefer to print out your own score of this hymn, click here to access a beautiful PDF file.


To research the history of this hymn tune: http://www.hymnary.org/hymnal/SH2014