Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Let all mortal flesh keep silence And with fear and trembling stand Ponder nothing earthly-minded For with blessing in His hand

Let all mortal flesh keep silence And with fear and trembling stand Ponder nothing earthly-minded

For with blessing in His hand Christ our God to earth descendeth Our full homage to demand

King of kings, yet born of Mary As of old on earth He stood Lord of lords, in human vesture In the body and the blood

He will give to all the faithful His own self for heavenly food

Rank on rank the host of heaven Spreads its vanguard on the way As the Light of light descendeth From the realms of endless day That the powers of hell may vanish As the darkness clears away

At His feet the six-winged seraph Cherubim with sleepless eye

Veil their faces to the Presence