Give rest, O Christ (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2012-07-17)  CPDL #26780:     

Editor: Stephen Clark (submitted 2012-07-17).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: In English; translated by W. J. Birkbeck, edited by Walter Parratt. SATB.

• (Posted 2012-07-17)  CPDL #26781:     

Editor: Stephen Clark (submitted 2012-07-17).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 75 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: In English; translated by W. J. Birkbeck, edited by Walter Parratt. Transposed down a fifth to be sung by mens' voices only. TTBB.

General Information

Title: Give rest, O Christ
Composer: Anonymous

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SATB or TTBB
Genre: Sacred, Burial service

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1892 Novello's Short Anthems no.114
Description: The Russian Contakion of the Departed.

Original text and translations

English text

Give rest, O Christ, to thy servant with thy Saints:
where sorrow and pain are no more;
neither sighing,
but life everlasting.

Thou only art immortal,
the Creator and Maker of Man:
and we are mortal, formed of the earth,
and unto earth shall we return:
for so thou didst ordain,
when thou createdst me, saying
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
All we go down to the dust;
and, weeping o'er the grave, we make our song:
alleluya, alleluya, alleluya.

Translation by W. J. Birkbeck