Text: | The King Shall Come |
Translator: | John Brownlie |
Tune: | MORNING SONG |
1 The King shall come when morning dawns
and light triumphant breaks,
when beauty gilds the eastern hills,
and life to joy awakes.
2 Not as of old a little child
to bear, and fight, and die,
but crowned with glory like the sun
that lights the morning sky.
3 O brighter than the rising morn
when He, victorious, rose
and left the lonesome place of death,
despite the rage of foes.
4 O brighter than that glorious morn
shall this fair morning be,
when Christ, our King, in beauty comes,
and we His face shall see.
5 The King shall come when morning dawns,
and earth's dark night is past;
O haste the rising of that morn,
the day that aye shall last.
6 And let the endless bliss begin,
by weary saints foretold,
when right shall triumph over wrong,
and truth shall be extolled.
7 The King shall come when morning dawns,
and light and beauty brings;
"Hail, Christ the Lord!" Thy people pray,
come quickly, King of kings!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The King shall come when morning dawns |
Title: | The King Shall Come |
Translator: | John Brownlie (1907) |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2017 |
Topic: | Jesus Christ: Advent |
Source: | Ancient Greek hymn |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MORNING SONG |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | f minor |
Source: | Traditional American melody; Kentucky Harmony, 1813 |