Text:Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones
Author:John Athelstan Riley
Tune:LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Harmonizer:Ralph Vaughan Williams

11. Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones

Text Information
First Line: Ye watchers and ye holy ones, bright seraphs, cherubim and thrones
Title: Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones
Author: John Athelstan Riley (1906)
Meter: 88.44.88 w. alleluias
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Topic: God: Adoration and Praise
Tune Information
Name: LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Harmonizer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906)
Meter: 88.44.88 w. alleluias
Key: D Major
Source: Geistliche Kirchengesänge, Cologne, 1623; Harm. The English Hymnal, 1906


Text Information:

English Anglican Riley borrowed many of the phrases of this text from ancient Greek liturgies


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