Funeral Ikos (葬礼赞词)-The King's Singers

[ti:Funeral Ikos] [ar:The King'S Singers] [al:Sermons & Devotions] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.42]Funeral Ikos (葬礼赞词) - The King's Singers (国王歌手合唱团) [00:01.46]Written by：John Tavener/Daryl Runswick [00:02.51] [00:03.10]Why these bitter words of the dying o brethren [00:13.61]Which they utter as they go hence [00:16.93] [00:18.53]I am parted from my brethren [00:21.65] [00:23.74]All my friends do I abandon and go hence [00:29.10] [00:31.32]But whither I go that understand I not [00:37.30] [00:39.57]Neither what shall become of me yonder [00:45.57] [00:47.95]Only God who hath summoned me knoweth [00:53.51] [00:55.65]But make commemoration of me with the song [01:01.40] [01:04.71]Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia [01:10.97] [01:13.94]Alleluia [01:17.29] [01:25.75]But whither now go the souls [01:29.30] [01:30.25]How dwell they now together there [01:33.89] [01:35.24]This mystery have I desired to learn but none can impart aright [01:46.63] [01:47.86]Do they call to mind their own people as we do them [01:54.66] [01:56.58]Or have they forgotten all those who mourn them and make the song [02:07.13] [02:08.82]Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia [02:15.29] [02:17.31]Alleluia [02:21.26] [02:30.03]We go forth on the path eternal and as condemned [02:37.54] [02:38.38]With downcast faces present ourselves before the only God eternal [02:47.23] [02:49.69]Where then is comeliness where then is wealth [02:55.96] [02:58.07]Where then is the glory of this world [03:02.23] [03:05.47]There shall none of these things aid us but only to say oft the psalm [03:15.35] [03:17.31]Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia [03:24.32] [03:25.99]Alleluia [03:31.09] [03:39.66]If thou hast shown mercy unto man o man [03:45.55] [03:47.04]That same mercy shall be shown thee there [03:52.29] [03:54.26]And if on an orphan thou hast shown compassion [04:00.57] [04:01.23]The same shall there deliver thee from want [04:05.90] [04:08.58]If in this life the naked thou hast clothed [04:14.13] [04:15.66]The same shall give thee shelter there and sing the psalm [04:26.25] [04:27.87]Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia [04:34.27] [04:36.84]Alleluia [04:40.74] [04:49.18]Youth and the beauty of the body fade at the hour of death [04:56.94] [04:57.80]And the tongue then burneth fiercely and the parched throat is inflamed [05:05.84] [05:07.46]The beauty of the eyes is quenched then the comeliness of the face all altered [05:21.36] [05:22.71]The shapeliness of the neck destroyed and the other parts have become numb [05:35.49]Nor often say Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia [05:47.01] [05:49.26]Alleluia [05:53.33] [06:03.79]With ecstasy are we inflamed if we but hear that there is light eternal yonder [06:13.30] [06:15.31]That there is paradise wherein every soul of righteous ones rejoiceth [06:25.07] [06:28.03]Let us all also enter into Christ that we may cry aloud thus unto God [06:41.38] [06:45.06]Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia [06:51.63] [06:54.90]Alleluia