Come Down, O Love Divine — brass quintet, piano
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SKU: A0.796999
Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Arranged by Todd Marchand. Christian,Sacred. 17 pages. Con Spirito Music #404180. Published by Con Spirito Music (A0.796999).“Come Down, O Love Divine" pairs a text by the Italian mystic poet Bianco de Siena (c. 1350-1399) with a tune by the towering English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). Translated by the Anglican cleric Richard F. Littledale (1833-1890), Bianco's hymn is especially appropriate at celebrations of the Holy Spirit (e.g. Pentecost), and it is ideal as a wedding prelude. The first two stanzas are a prayer, beseeching the Holy Spirit's presence in one's life:
1. Come down, O Love divine, seek thou this soul of mine, and visit it with thine own ardor glowing; O Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear, and kindle it, thy holy flame bestowing.
2. O let it freely burn, till earthly passions turn to dust and ashes in its heat consuming; and let thy glorious light shine ever on my sight, and clothe me round, the while my path illuming.
Vaughan Williams' tune is named after the Gloucestershire village in which he was born.
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