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O may we soon again renew that song | O may we soon again renew that song | ||
And keep in tune with Heaven, till God ere long | And keep in tune with Heaven, till God ere long | ||
To his celestial consort us unite, | To his celestial consort[concert] us unite, | ||
To live with him and sing in endless morn of light.}} | To live with him and sing in endless morn of light.}} | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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Revision as of 07:38, 4 September 2021
General information
Lyricist: John Milton, from "At a Solemn Musick"
Settings by composers
- Charles Hubert Hastings Parry SATB.SATB
- John Stafford Smith SSATB
Texts and Translations
English text
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,
Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse,
Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ,
Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce;
And to our high-raised phantasy present
That undisturbed song of pure consent,
Aye sung before the sapphire-coloured throne
To him that sits thereon,
With saintly shout and solemn jubilee;
Where the bright Seraphim, in burning row,
Their loud, uplifted angel-trumpets blow,
And the Cherubic host in thousand quires
Touch their immortal harps of golden wires,
With those just spirits, that wear victorious palms,
Hymns devout and holy psalms
Singing everlastingly.
That we on Earth with undiscording voice,
May rightly answer that melodious noise;
As once we did, till disproportioned sin
Jarr'd against Nature's chime, and with harsh din
Broke the fair music that all creatures made
To their great Lord, whose love their motion swayed
In perfect diapason, whilst they stood
In first obedience, and their state of good.
O may we soon again renew that song
And keep in tune with Heaven, till God ere long
To his celestial consort[concert] us unite,
To live with him and sing in endless morn of light.