Today's musical selection is "Drop, Drop, Slow Tears," courtesy of Glenn Gould's favorite composer, Orlando Gibbons. It's short, but very sweet. And I really love the sentiments in the final verse: "Nor let His eye see sin, but through my tears."
Lovely (music and lyrics alike).
Drop, drop, slow tears,
And bathe those beauteous feet
Which brought from Heaven
The news and Prince of Peace.
Cease not, wet eyes,
His mercy to entreat;
To cry for vengeance
Sin doth never cease.
In your deep floods
Drown all my faults and fears;
Nor let His eye
See sin, but through my tears.
Provided to YouTube by Warner Music Group Drop, drop, slow tears (Song 46) · Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury Best Loved Hymns ℗ 2001 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd Released on: 2001-03-26 Choir: Choir Of King's College, Cambridge Choir, Featured Vocalist, Lead Vocals: Cambridge King's College Choir Choir: King's College Choir, Cambridge Conductor: Stephen Cleobury Director, Featured Vocalist, Lead Vocals: Stephen Cleobury Ensemble: The Wallace Collection Producer: Stephen Johns Production: Kerry Brown Technical Engineer: Richard Hale Technical Engineer: Mike Cox Tonmeister: Simon Rhodes Composer: Orlando Gibbons Auto-generated by YouTube.