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Funeral Ikos - The King'S Singers
Written by：John Tavener/Traditional

Why these bitter words of the dying o brethren
Which they utter as they go hence
I am parted from my brethren

All my friends do I abandon and go hence

But whither I go that understand I not

Neither what shall become of me yonder
Only God who hath summoned me knoweth

But make commemoration of me with the song

Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

Alleluia

But whither now go the souls

How dwell they now together there

This mystery have I desired to learn but none can impart aright

Do they call to mind their own people as we do them

Or have they forgotten all those who mourn them and make the song

Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

Alleluia

We go forth on the path eternal and as condemned
With downcast faces present ourselves before the only God eternal

Where then is comeliness where then is wealth

Where then is the glory of this world

There shall none of these things aid us but only to say oft the psalm

Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

Alleluia

If thou hast shown mercy unto man o man

That same mercy shall be shown thee there

And if on an orphan thou hast shown compassion
The same shall there deliver thee from want

If in this life the naked thou hast clothed

The same shall give thee shelter there and sing the psalm

Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

Alleluia

Youth and the beauty of the body fade at the hour of death

And the tongue then burneth fiercely and the parched throat is inflamed

The beauty of the eyes is quenched then the comeliness of the face all altered

The shapeliness of the neck destroyed and the other parts have become numb
Nor often say Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

Alleluia

With ecstasy are we inflamed if we but hear that there is light eternal yonder
That there is paradise wherein every soul of Righteous Ones rejoiceth

Let us all also enter into Christ that we may cry aloud thus unto God

Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

Alleluia