Text: | Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones |
Author: | John Athelstan Laurie Riley |
Tune: | LASST UNS ERFREUEN |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
1 Ye watchers and ye holy ones,
Bright seraphs, cherubim, and thrones,
Raise the glad strain, Alleluia!
Cry out, dominions, princedoms, powers,
Virtues, archangels, angels' choirs,
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
2 O higher than the cherubim,
More glorious than the seraphim,
Lead their praises, Alleluia!
Thou bearer of the eternal Word,
Most gracious, magnify the Lord,
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
3 Respond, ye souls in endless rest,
Ye patriarchs and prophets blest,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Ye holy twelve, ye martyrs strong,
All saints triumphant, raise the song,
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
4 O friends, in gladness let us sing,
Supernal anthems echoing,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
To God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Spirit, Three in One,
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Ye watchers and ye holy ones |
Title: | Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones |
Author: | John Athelstan Laurie Riley (1906) |
Meter: | LM with alleluias |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LASST UNS ERFREUEN |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906) |
Meter: | LM with alleluias |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Geistlich Kirchengesäng, Cologne, 1623; alt. |