The Cyber Hymnal ‎#1034

1034. The Coming One

1. Who is this that cometh in the starlit glow,
As a newborn infant, to the manger low;
While the shepherds wonder at the wondrous sight,
While the angel chorus wakes the silent night?

Refrain
’Tis the Meek and Lowly, Just and Holy One;
This is He that cometh—God’s belovèd Son:
’Tis the Meek and Lowly, Just and Holy One;
This is He that cometh—God’s belovèd Son.

2. Who is this that cometh, this poor Nazarene,
With His timely counsel, with His faultless mien;
With His help and healing for the lame, the blind,
For the poor, the needy, for the burdened mind? [Refrain]

3. Who is this that cometh, spurning earthly gain,
To the midnight garden, to the cross of pain;
Cometh forth triumphant, from the sealèd grave,
Cometh in His beauty, in His might to save? [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: Who is this that cometh in the starlit glow
• Title: The Coming One
• Author: F. E. Pettingell (1889)
• Refrain First Line: 'Tis the Meek and Lowly, Just and Holy One
• Meter: 11.11.11.11 D
• Language: English
• Source: Sowing and Reaping (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: J. H. Kurzenknabe & Sons, 1889), number 150
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: BOGOTÁ
• Composer: John Harrison Tenney (1889)
• Meter: 11.11.11.11 D
• Incipit: 32335 34345 33234
• Key: D Major
• Copyright: Public Domain