Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)

Saint Peter's Catholic Church: Columbia, South Carolina USA
Arranged by Mark Husey, Organist III/38 Peragallo pipe organ
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Hymn in Procession: All Souls Parish Mass (with Duruflé's REQUIEM)
2 November 2009

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

2) 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 heavenly food.

3) Rank on rank the host of heaven
Spreads its vanguard on the way,
As the Light of light descendeth
From the realms of endless day,
That the powers of hell may vanish
As the darkness clears away.

4) At His feet the six wingèd seraph,
Cherubim with sleepless eye,
Veil their faces to the presence,
As with ceaseless voice they cry:
Alleluia, Alleluia
Alleluia, Lord Most High!

Tune: PICARDY, with interlude taken from "Fugue sur le nom d'Alain" (Opus 7b) by Maurice Duruflé,
free arranged by Mark Husey, Organist
2002 III/38 Peragallo pipe organ http://www.visitstpeters.org/music.ht...