[00:00.000] 作曲 : John Tavener [00:00.00]Funeral Ikos [00:00.00]The King's Singers [00:00.00] [00:01.83]Why these bitter words of the dying, [00:09.46]o brethren, which they utter as they go hence? [00:16.79]I am parted from my brethren. [00:21.55]All my friends do i abandon and go hence. [00:29.02]But whither i go, that understand i not, [00:37.47]neither what shall become of me yonder; [00:46.20]only God who hath summoned me knoweth. [00:53.58]But make commemoration of me with the song: [01:02.32]Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! [01:22.58] [01:24.68]But whither now go the souls? [01:29.35]How dwell they now together there? [01:34.28]This mystery have i desired to learn; but none can impart aright. [01:46.88]Do they call to mind their own people, as we do them? [01:50.00] [01:55.21]Or have they forgotten all those who mourn them and make the song: [02:07.60]Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! [02:26.90] [02:29.06]We go forth on the path eternal, and as condemned, with downcast faces, [02:39.69]present ourselves before the only God eternal. [02:48.66]Where then is comeliness? Where then is wealth? [02:57.14]Where then is the glory of this world? [03:04.41]There shall none of these things aid us, but only to say oft the psalm: [03:16.09]Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! [03:35.66] [03:38.65]If thou hast shown mercy unto man, o man, [03:46.04]that same mercy shall be shown thee there; [03:53.69]and if on an orphan thou hast shown compassion, [04:00.27]the same shall there deliver thee from want. [04:07.07]If in this life the naked thou hast clothed, [04:13.66]the same shall give thee shelter there, and sing the psalm: [04:25.32]Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! [04:46.12] [04:48.69]Youth and the beauty of the body fade at the hour of death, [04:56.36]and the tongue then burneth fiercely, and the parched throat is inflamed. [05:06.94]The beauty of the eyes is quenched then, the comeliness of the face all altered, [05:21.72]the shapeliness of the neck destroyed; [05:30.16]and the other parts have become numb, nor often say: [05:39.08]Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! [06:02.79]With ecstasy are we inflamed if we but hear that there is light eternal yonder; [06:14.70]that there is Paradise, wherein every soul of Righteous Ones rejoiceth. [06:27.14]Let us all, also, enter into Christ, that we may cry aloud thus unto God: [06:43.16]Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! [05:59.00]