Text: | How shall I sing that majesty |
Author: | John Mason, c. 1645-1694 |
Tune: | THIRD MODE MELODY |
Composer: | Thomas Tallis, 1515-85 |
Transposer: | R. V. W. |
1 How shall I sing that majesty
Which angels do admire?
Let dust in dust and silence lie;
Sing, sing, ye heavenly choir.
Thousands of thousands stand around
Thy throne, O God most high;
Ten thousand times ten thousand sound
Thy praise; but who am I?
2 Thy brightness unto them appears,
Whilst I thy footsteps trace;
A sound of God comes to my ears,
But they behold thy face.
They sing because thou art their Sun;
Lord, send a beam on me;
For where heaven is but once begun
There alleluyas be.
3 Enlighten with faith’s light my heart,
Inflame it with love’s fire;
Then shall I sing and bear a part
With that celestial choir.
I shall, I fear, be dark and cold,
With all my fire and light;
Yet when thou dost accept their gold,
Lord, treasure up my mite.
4 How great a being, Lord, is thine,
Which doth all beings keep!
Thy knowledge is the only line
To sound so vast a deep.
Thou art a sea without a shore,
A sun without a sphere;
Thy time is now and evermore,
Thy place is everywhere.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How shall I sing that majesty |
Author: | John Mason, c. 1645-1694 |
Meter: | DCM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1986 |
Topic: | Trinity Sunday |
Notes: | Alternative tune KINGSFOLD 376 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | THIRD MODE MELODY |
Composer: | Thomas Tallis, 1515-85 |
Transposer: | R. V. W. |
Meter: | DCM |
Key: | c minor |
Source: | Parker's The Whole Psalter |
Copyright: | Arr. By permission of Oxford University Press |