Text:Ye watchers and ye holy ones
Author:John Athelstan Lurie Riley, 1858-1945
Tune:LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Adapter and Harmonizer:Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958

618. Ye watchers and ye holy ones

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 the 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
First Line: Ye watchers and ye holy ones
Author: John Athelstan Lurie Riley, 1858-1945
Refrain First Line: Alleluia, alleluia
Meter: 88. 44. 88. with Refrain
Language: English
Publication Date: 1985
Topic: The Church Triumphant
Copyright: By permission of Oxford University Press.
Notes: Now Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Adapter and Harmonizer: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958
Meter: 88. 44. 88. with Refrain
Key: E♭ Major
Source: Auserlesne Catholische Geistliche Kirchengeseng, 1623 (melody)
Copyright: By permission of Oxford University Press.



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