Service for the Burial of the Dead (Thomas Morley)

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(Posted 2024-11-21) CPDL #82813:

Editor: Cynthia Brome (submitted 2024-11-21). Score information: Letter, 15 pages, 749 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Burial Service complete. Transposed up a whole step. St. Luke in the Fields Choral Series. David Shuler, ed.

General Information

Title: Service for the Burial of the Dead
Composer: Thomas Morley
Lyricist: The Book of Common Prayer^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Burial service

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

English text

1. I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord:
he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

2. I know that my Redeemer liveth,
and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.
And though after my skin worms destroy this body
yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for myself,
and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.

3. We brought nothing into this world
and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away;
blessed be the Name of the Lord.

4. Man, that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live,
and is full of misery.
He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flow'r;
he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

5. In the midst of life we are in death;
of whom may we seek for succour,
but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeas'd?
Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty,
O holy and most merciful Saviour,
deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.

6. Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts;
shut not thy merciful ears to our pray'rs;
but spare us, Lord most holy,
O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour,
thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not at our last hour
for any pains of death, to fall from thee.

7. I heard a voice from heav'n, saying unto me,
write, from henceforth blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord: ev'n so saith the Spirit;
for they rest from their labours.
Amen.