God is Gone Up (1951) - Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

Harvard University Choir
Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor
David von Behren, organ

from May 12, 2024 Sunday Service
Harvard Memorial Church
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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God is gone up with a triumphant shout:
The Lord with sounding trumpets' melodies:
Sing praise, sing praises out,
Unto our king sing praise seraphic wise!
Lift up your heads, ye lasting doors, they sing,
And let the king of glory enter in.
Methinks I see heaven's sparkling courtiers fly,
In flakes of glory down him to attend,
And hear heart-cramping notes of melody
Surround his chariot as it did ascend;
Mixing their music, making every string
More to enravish as they this tune sing.

-Edward Taylor, Class of 1671 (1642-1729)