"History, Analysis and Performance Considerations of Gerald Finzi's ...

33Crashaw’s images of “Food” and “Shepherd” (measure 42) return in the form of the“Pasture,” as a final slowing of tempo and subsiding of pedal motion bring the underlyingstructural connection of measures 39-67 to completion. In these closing lines of Lauda Sion,petitioners seek not for a change in spiritual nourishment, only of “Place,” that they may feedwithin a more close communion of the Lord—“in thine own Face.” Such a longing for personal,even physical closeness with deity will also be repeated in the closing lines of the anthem, “Andfor thy veil give me thy Face” (measures 164-165). In the same manner that “Coheirs of Saints”closed theme c, another Finzian fading-away occurs in measures 65-67 as the organ again echoesa prior text, “To feed of thee,” and the choir falls silent. A fermata and lift of the final organtones mark a clear and distinct end to Section B (see Figure 18).Figure 18. ”To feed of Thee” organ echo (measures 64-67).