Text: | Lo! he comes, with clouds descending |
Author: | Charles Wesley |
Tune: | ST. THOMAS |
1 Lo! he comes, with clouds descending,
Once for our salvation slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Christ, the Lord, returns to reign.
2 Ev'ry eye shall now behold him,
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold him,
Pierced, and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, 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 worshipers:
With what rapture, 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 kingdoms for thine own:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and Thou alone!
Amen.
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First Line: | Lo! he comes, with clouds descending |
Author: | Charles Wesley (1758, alt.) |
Meter: | 87.87.87. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1940 |
Topic: | Advent; Advent IV: The Holy Communion Closing; Ember Days: Evening Prayer Closing |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. THOMAS |
Meter: | 87.87.87. |
Key: | D Major |