Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Gustav Holst)

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  • (Posted 2011-11-16)  CPDL #24949:        (Sibelius 6)
Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2011-11-16).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 46 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Score updated 6 Nov 202 with minor corrections.

General Information

Title: Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Composer: Gustav Holst
Lyricist: Gerard Moultrie

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SacredAnthem

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1916
Description: 

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Original text and translations

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Let all mortal flesh keep silence
And with fear and trembling stand;
Ponder nothing earthly-minded,
For with blessing in his hand
Christ our Lord to earth descendeth
Our full homage to demand.

King of Kings, yet born of Mary,
As of old on earth he stood,
Lord of Lords, in human vesture,
In the body and the blood
He will give to all the faithful
His own self for heav'nly food.

Rank on rank the host of heaven
Spreads his vanguard on the way,
As the light of light descendeth
From the realms of endless day,
That the pow'rs of hell may vanish
As the darkness clears away.

At his feet the six wing'd seraph;
Cherubim with sleepless eye
Veil their faces to the presence
As with ceaseless voice they cry,
Alleluia, alleluia,
Alleluia, Lord most high.
Amen.