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Text by John Donne (The Litanie)
Score: universaledition.com/en/From-needing-danger-to-be-good/P0085264 universaledition.com/en/Through-thy-Submitting-All/P0085268 universaledition.com/en/index.php/detail/f08a1b68822a03a724949b2db32237dc
Audio: youtube.com/watch?v=4Up5y4CM75U
The Cambridge Singers
John Rutter, conductor

0:00 No. 1 (XVI)
From needing danger, to be good,
From owing thee yesterday’s tears today,
From trusting so much to thy blood,
That in that hope, we wound our soul away,
From bribing thee with alms, to excuse
Some sin more burdenous,
From light affecting, in religion, news,
From thinking us all soul, neglecting thus
Our mutual duties, Lord deliver us.

1:41 No. 2 (XX)
Through thy submitting all, to blows
Thy face, thy clothes to spoil, thy fame to scorn,
All ways, which rage, or justice knows,
And by which thou couldst show, that thou wast born,
And through thy gallant humbleness
Which thou in death didst shew,
Dying before thy soul they could express,
Deliver us from death by dying so,
To this world, ere this world doth bid us go.

3:45 No. 3 (XXIII)
Hear us, O hear us Lord; to thee
A sinner is more music, when he prays,
Than spheres, or angels’ praises be,
In panegyric allelujas.
Hear us, for till thou hear us, Lord
We know not what to say.
Thine ear to our sighs, tears, thoughts gives voice and word.
O thou who Satan heard’st in Job’s sick day,
Hear thy self now, for thou in us dost pray.