Text: | Lo! he comes with clouds descending |
Author: | Charles Wesley, 1707-88 |
Tune: | HELMSLEY |
Transcriber: | T. Olivers, 1725-99 |
1 LO! he comes with clouds descending,
Once for favoured sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluya!
God appears, on earth to reign.
2 Every eye shall now behold him
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at nought and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing
Shall the true Messiah see.
3 Those dear tokens of his passion
Still his dazzling body bears,
Cause of endless exultation
To his ransomed worshippers:
With what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!
4 Yea, Amen! let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory:
Claim the kingdom for thine own:
O come quickly!
Alleluya! Come, Lord, come!
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First Line: | Lo! he comes with clouds descending |
Author: | Charles Wesley, 1707-88 (alt) |
Meter: | 87 87 47 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1986 |
Topic: | The Christian Year: Advent |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HELMSLEY |
Transcriber: | T. Olivers, 1725-99 |
Meter: | 87 87 47 |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | Wesley's Select Hymns, 1765 |