They are waiting for our petitions (Wilfrid Jones)

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• (Posted 2025-07-23)  CPDL #86042:       

Editor: Wilfrid Jones (submitted 2025-07-23).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 50 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: They Are Waiting for our Petitions
Composer: Wilfrid Jones
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn for All Souls

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2025

External websites:

• St. Norbert Psalter.

Original text and translations

English text

They are waiting for our petitions silent and calm
Their lips no prayer can utter, no suppliant psalm.
we have made the all too weary with long delay
For the souls in their still agony, good christian pray.
Requiescant in pace, requiescant in pace.

For the soul thou holdest dearest let prayers arise
The voice of love is mighty and will pierce the skies.
Waste not in selfish weeping one precious day
But speeding thy love to heaven, good christian pray.
Requiescant in pace, requiescant in pace.

For the soul by all forgotten, even its own,
By its nearest and its dearest, left all alone,
Whisper a "De profundis", or gently lay
Alms in some beggar's outstretched palm, good christian pray.
Requiescant in pace, requiescant in pace.

Our loving lips can cry aloud the pleading word
Through all that silent kingdom unknown, unheard.
O canst thou turn from their bitter want coldly away
Kneel humbly at the altar's foot, christian, and pray.
Requiescant in pace, requiescant in pace.