Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence- 124

Let all mortal flesh keep silence,

and with fear and trembling stand;

pondering nothing earthly minded,

for with blessing in his hand

Christ our God to earth descendeth,

our full homage to demand.

Truly God, yet born of Mary,

as of old on earth he stood,

word of God in human vesture,

in the body and the blood,

Christ 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 shadows clear away.

At his feet the six-winged seraph;

cherubim, with sleepless eye,

veil their faces to the Presence,

as with ceaseless voice they cry,

“Alleluia, Alleluia,

Alleluia, God most high!”