Number: 90
Title: Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906
Author: John Athelstan Laurie Riley, 1906
Theme: Adoration and Praise;Christian Year: All Saints Day;Music and Singing;New Heaven and a New Earth: Communion of the Saints;New Heaven and a New Earth: Communion of the Saints;Opening Hymns;Service Music: Doxology;Testimony and Witness;The Glory of the Triune God: Praise and Thanksgiving
1. Ye watchers and ye holy ones, bright seraphs, cherubim, and thrones, raise the glad strain, Alleluia! Cry out, dominions, princedoms, powers, virtues, archangels, angels' choirs: Refrain: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! 2. O higher than the cherubim, more glorious than the seraphim, lead their praises, Alleluia! Thou bearer of th' eternal Word, most gracious, magnify the Lord: (Refrain) 3. Respond, ye souls in endless rest, ye patriarchs and prophets blest, Alleluia! Alleluia! Ye holy twelve, ye martyrs strong, all saints triumphant, raise the song: (Refrain) 4. O friends, in gladness let us sing, supernal anthems echoing, Alleluia! Alleluia! To God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, Three in One: (Refrain)