Let all mortal flesh keep silence And with fear and trembling stand Ponder nothing earthly-minded For with blessing in His hand Christ, our God, to earth descending Comes our homage to command King of kings, yet born of Mary As of old on earth He stood Lord of lords in human likeness In the body and the blood He will give to all the faithful His own self for heav'nly food Rank on rank the host of heaven Spreads its vanguard on the way As light from light, descending From the realms of endless day That the pow'rs of hell may vanquish As the darkness clears away At his feet the six-winged seraph Cherubim with sleepless eye Veil their faces to the presence As with ceaseless voice they cry "Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, Lord most high Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, Lord most high"