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Editor: Andris Solims (submitted 2005-11-29). Score information: A4, 1 page, 27 kB Copyright: Religious

Edition notes: no verses supplied

Title: Rorate coeli
Composer: Anonymous (Gregorian chant)

Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unison

Genre: Sacred, Chant, Antiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: Refrain to the so called Advent Prose, not to be confused with the Introit for the 4th Sunday of Advent.

External websites: square notation from Liber usualis including verses

Latin text

Rorate coeli desuper, et nubes pluant Justum
aperiatur terra, et germinet Salvatorem.

English translation

Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
and let the skies pour down righteousness.

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-''Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
+Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
-and let the skies pour down righteousness.''
+and let the skies pour down righteousness.
-. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord,
-neither remember iniquity forever:
-Thy holy cities are a wilderness,
-Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation:
-Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praisèd thee.
-''(first of 4 vv)''
 </poem>