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Not a hymn, but this song gives me chills every time I hear it and is my all time favorite: youtube.com/watch?v=YvD9t2TcDr0
William Mundy’s Vox Patris Caelestis sung by The Tallis Scholars
English Translation:
William Mundy’s Vox Patris Caelestis sung by The Tallis Scholars
English Translation:
The voice of the heavenly Father
to the holy Virgin Mary,
the mother of his Son,
as she was translated from her mortal body
broke forth in these words:
‘All lovely are you, my love,
my dearest child of Anna,
most sacred of virgins, Mary,
and from the very moment of your conception
neither now or ever
has any stain been found in you.
Your lips are as a honeycomb,
distilling from your most pure heart words
wonderful in spiritual sweetness.
Lo, now the winter of earthly cold
and wretchedness is past; flowers of eternal bliss
and happiness which have awaited you here
with me from everlasting now appear,
beautiful of sight and scent.
The fruitful vines give their perfume
of ambrosia, heavenly in sweetness,
and the voice of the turtle dove,
the song of your dearest lover’s
only desire to embrace you,
is heard in our land with graceful notes.
Arise and make haste my beloved,
my dove, my fair one, from that far land
full of sorrow, and come to this land
which I will show to you.
Come forth from your mortal body,
my dear-heart, clothed in raiment of gold
and surrounded by the rainbow
of heavenly glory.
Come to me, your most dear lover,
for I have loved you above all others,
and I will bestow upon you my kingdom,
for I have long desired your beauty.
Come from that earthly Mount Lebanon,
however lofty, of human contemplation,
to Mount Sion,
whither the pure of hand
and heart must ever ascend.
Come to me, your true Ahasuerus,
my Esther, my most high-born,
to pray for your people and ever to stay
and take your delight with me.
All the host of heaven with great desire
are longing to look upon you;
Come, come, come
and be crowned with heavenly glory.’
Amen.