Westminster Abbey - Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

Westminster Abbey choir and congregation sing Dear Lord and Father of Mankind. The trebles do a verse on their own.

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[elgar34]

This video is the ultimate Anglican gift to the world.

[notyobs]

Just for info, the words are taken from a poem written by an American Quaker.

[ngilotti]

My original comment, which failed to post, I will make again. That is, that this is a sublime example of hymn-singing at its best. The music is pure and glorious, the text divinely inspiring. The congregation sings as one. Transcendence is experienced by all--we are with God, and God is with us. If this is what heaven is like, take me there!!

[AlyIsaIni]

To the uploader comments above: it's also base on an Vedic tradition: brewing of Soma.

It's a gift of history, more like.

Oh, P.S.: like if the Dunkirk scene of Atonement brought you to search this :3

[ravenwolf68]

Love this - stunning - but it's missing two verses: In simple trust like theirs who heard, Beside the Syrian sea, The gracious calling of the Lord, Let us, like them, without a word, Rise up and follow Thee. O Sabbath rest by Galilee, O calm of hills above, Where Jesus knelt to share with Thee The silence of eternity, Interpreted by love!

[Organexaminer]

@goodchappy Yes I agree with you, some people have unimaginably bad taste in music, I think there must be something fundamentally wrong with anyone who does not like this tune.

[boltonwandererskings]

@goodchappy AND I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH YOU. REPTON SHOULD BE CONFINED TO THE WASTEBIN

[goodchappy]

@boltonwandererskings I don't say this very often but I COMPLETELY DISAGREE with you about this tune, it is beautiful. I have just looked up the tune "rest" and it doesn't do anything, I would say it is one of the most boring tunes I have ever come across, no wonder it is never used.

[contratromba858]

@felicciasc ...so?

[boltonwandererskings]

This is a dirge but there is a better tune (Rest)

[felicciasc]

The words were written by a Quaker

[Cameraman61]

@jdfrusher Yes it's in the elegy for Dunkirk sequence in the film "Atonement". I watched it in a hotel bedroom in New York with the hubbub of Manhattan below, but it still brought a lump to my throat!

[tonyleeson1]

@ngilotti Truly wonderful!