《Funeral Ikos》歌词

[00:00:00] Funeral Ikos (葬礼赞词) - The King's Singers (国王歌手合唱团)

[00:00:00] Written by：John Tavener/Traditional

[00:00:02] Why these bitter words of the dying o brethren

[00:00:11] Which they utter as they go hence

[00:00:18] I am parted from my brethren

[00:00:23] All my friends do I abandon and go hence

[00:00:30] But whither I go that understand I not

[00:00:38] Neither what shall become of me yonder

[00:00:47] Only God who hath summoned me knoweth

[00:00:54] But make commemoration of me with the song

[00:01:03] Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

[00:01:13] Alleluia

[00:01:24] But whither now go the souls

[00:01:29] How dwell they now together there

[00:01:34] This mystery have I desired to learn but none can impart aright

[00:01:47] Do they call to mind their own people as we do them

[00:01:55] Or have they forgotten all those who mourn them and make the song

[00:02:07] Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

[00:02:16] Alleluia

[00:02:29] We go forth on the path eternal and as condemned

[00:02:37] With downcast faces present ourselves before the only God eternal

[00:02:48] Where then is comeliness where then is wealth

[00:02:57] Where then is the glory of this world

[00:03:04] There shall none of these things aid us but only to say oft the psalm

[00:03:16] Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

[00:03:25] Alleluia

[00:03:38] If thou hast shown mercy unto man o man

[00:03:46] That same mercy shall be shown thee there

[00:03:53] And if on an orphan thou hast shown compassion

[00:04:00] The same shall there deliver thee from want

[00:04:07] If in this life the naked thou hast clothed

[00:04:14] The same shall give thee shelter there and sing the psalm

[00:04:27] Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

[00:04:36] Alleluia

[00:04:48] Youth and the beauty of the body fade at the hour of death

[00:04:56] And the tongue then burneth fiercely and the parched throat is inflamed

[00:05:06] The beauty of the eyes is quenched then the comeliness of the face all altered

[00:05:21] The shapeliness of the neck destroyed and the other parts have become numb

[00:05:34] Nor often say Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

[00:05:48] Alleluia

[00:06:02] With ecstasy are we inflamed if we but hear that there is light eternal yonder

[00:06:14] That there is paradise wherein every soul of Righteous Ones rejoiceth

[00:06:27] Let us all also enter into Christ that we may cry aloud thus unto God

[00:06:43] Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

[00:06:53] Alleluia