Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• CPDL #18979:

Editor: Robin Doveton (submitted 2009-03-02).   Score information: A4 or Letter, 9 pages, 302 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: correction 2009-03-06: ties added in organ RH bars 81-2.

• CPDL #6376: score removed at request of editor

Editor: Andrew Crookall (submitted 2004-01-05).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 138 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Re-registered as CPDL #17036 on 2008-05-30.

General Information

Title: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Ful­bert of Chartres (952-1028) (Chor­us no­vae Je­ru­sa­lem); trans­lat­ed from Latin into Eng­lish by Ro­bert Campbell in Hymns and An­thems (1850); modified by the compilers of Hymns Ancient and Modern.

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: Organ
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Original text and translations

English text

Ye choirs of new Jerusalem,
Your sweetest notes employ,
The Paschal victory to hymn
In strains of holy joy.

For Judah's Lion bursts His chains,
Crushing the serpent's head;
And cries aloud through death’s domains
To wake th'imprison'd dead.

Devouring depths of hell
Their prey at His command restore;
His ransom'd hosts pursue their way
Where Jesus goes before.

Triumphant in His glory now
To Him all power is given;
To Him in one communion bow
All saints in earth and heaven.

While we, His soldiers, praise our King,
His mercy we implore,
Within His palace bright to bring
And keep us evermore.

All glory to the Father be,
All glory to the Son,
All glory, Holy Ghost, to Thee,
While endless ages run.

Alleluia! Amen.