Lord's Supper
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
- Words:
- from Liturgy of St. James, 4th Century. Translated by Gerard Moultrie, 1864.
- Music:
- 'Picardy' traditional French.
- Setting:
- "The English Hymnal", 1906, alt.
- Metre:
- 8 7 8 7 8 7
- 1Let all mortal flesh keep silence,And with fear and trembling stand;Ponder nothing earthly minded,For with blessing in His hand,Christ our God to earth descendeth,Our full homage to demand.
- 2King of kings, yet born of Mary,As of old on earth He stood,Lord of lords, in human vesture,In the body and the blood;He will give to all the faithfulHis own self for heav'nly food.
- 3Rank on rank the host of heavenSpreads its vanguard on the way,As the Light of light descendethFrom the realms of endless day,That the pow'rs of hell may vanishAs the darkness clears away.
- 4At His feet the six wingèd seraph,Cherubim with sleepless eye,Veil their faces to the presence,As with ceaseless voice they cry:Alleluia, AlleluiaAlleluia, Lord Most High!
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- Written in 1864, the words are in 202 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Picardy, is in 293 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.