7220 | The Cyber Hymnal#7221 | 7222 |
Text: | Welcome Sight! The Lord Descending! |
Author: | Thomas Kelly |
Tune: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry John Gauntlett |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Welcome sight! the Lord descending!
Jesus in the clouds appears;
Lo! the Savior comes, intending
Now to dry His people’s tears.
Lo! the Savior comes to reign:
Welcome to His waiting train.
2. Long they mourned their absent master;
Long they felt like men forlorn;
Bid the seasons fly still faster,
While they sighed for His return:
Lo! the period comes at last;
All their sorrows now are past.
3. Now from home no longer banished,
They are going to their rest;
Though the heavens and earth have vanished,
With their Lord they shall be blest:
Blest with Him His saints shall be;
Blest throughout eternity!
4. Happy people! grace unbounded,
Grace alone, exalts you thus:
Be ashamed, and be confounded;
Sing for ever—Not to us,
Not to us be glory given—
Glory to the God of Heaven!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Welcome sight! the Lord descending |
Title: | Welcome Sight! The Lord Descending! |
Author: | Thomas Kelly (1809) |
Meter: | 87.87.87 |
Language: | English |
Source: | Hymns on Various Passages of Scriptures, third edition, 1809 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry John Gauntlett (1849) |
Meter: | 87.87.87 |
Incipit: | 57117 12211 35332 |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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