Text: | Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones |
Author: | John Athelstan Laurie Riley |
Tune: | LASST UNS ERFREUEN |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Media: | Audio recording |
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:
Refrain:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
2. O higher than the cherubim,
more glorious than the seraphim,
lead their praises, Alleluia!
Thou bearer of th' eternal Word,
most gracious, magnify the Lord: (Refrain)
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: (Refrain)
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: (Refrain)
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) |
Refrain First Line: | Alleluia |
Meter: | 88.44.88 with Refrain |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1989 |
Topic: | New Heaven and a New Earth: Communion of the Saints; The Glory of the Triune God: Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and Praise(5 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LASST UNS ERFREUEN |
Harmonizer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906) |
Meter: | 88.44.88 with Refrain |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Source: | Geistlich Kirchengesäng, Cologne, 1623 |
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Audio recording: | Sample |