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A thousand years have come and gone

Author: Thomas T. Lynch (1868)
Tune: EPHRATAH
Published in 26 hymnals

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1 A thousand years have come and gone,
And near a thousand more,
Since happier light from heaven shone
Than ever shone before;
And in the hearts of old and young
A joy most joyful stirred,
That sent such news from tongue to tongue
As ears had never heard.

2 Then angels on their starry way
Felt bliss unfelt before,
For news that men should be as they,
To darkened earth they bore;
So toiling men and spirits bright
A first communion had,
And in meek mercy's rising light
Were each exceeding glad.

3 And we are glad, and we will sing,
As in the days of yore;
Come all, and hearts made ready bring,
To welcome back once more
The day when first on wintry earth
A summer change began,
And, dawning in a lowly birth,
Uprose the Light of man.

4 For trouble such as men must bear
From childhood to fourscore,
He shared with us, that we might share
His joy for evermore;
And twice a thousand years of grief,
Of conflict, and of sin,
May tell how large the harvest sheaf
His patient love shall win.

Amen.

The Hymnal: Published by the authority of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1895

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Author: Thomas T. Lynch

Lynch, Thomas Toke, was born at Dunmow, Essex, July 5, 1818, and educated at a school at Islington, in which he was afterwards an usher. For a few months he was a student at the Highbury Independent College; but withdrew, partly on account of failing health, and partly because his spirit was too free to submit to the routine of College life. From 1847 to 1849 he was Minister of a small charge at Highgate, and from 1849 to 1852 of a congregation in Mortimer Street, which subsequently migrated to Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square. From 1856 to 1859 he was laid aside by illness. In 1860 he resumed his ministry with his old congregation, in a room in Gower Street, where he remained until the opening of his new place of worship, in 1862, (Morningto… Go to person page >

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First Line:	A thousand years have come and gone
Author:	Thomas T. Lynch (1868)
Meter:	8.6.8.6 D
Language:	English

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EPHRATAH

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Instances (26)	First Line	Authors	Composers	Meter	Tune Title	Tune Key	Languages	Publication Date
American Church and Church School Hymnal #d3	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1937
American Church and Church School Hymnal #d3	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1927
Hymnal for American Youth #76	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1919
Hymns and Songs for the Sunday School #62	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1914
Hymns and Tunes for Schools #82	A thousand years have come and gone	Rev. T. T. Lynch						1908
Hymns of the Living Church #114	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas Toke Lynch						1910
Immanuel Hymnal #d5	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1929
Pilgrim Songs No.2 #d4	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1902
Songs of the Christian Life #96	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1912
Sursum Corda: a book of praise #158b	A thousand years have come and gone	T. T. Lynch						1898
Sursum Corda: a book of praise #158a	A thousand years have come and gone	T. T. Lynch						1898
The American Hymnal for Chapel Service #d3	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1925
The American Hymnal for Chapel Service #d3	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1922
The Army and Navy Hymnal #40	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1921
The Best Loved Hymns and Prayers of the American People #d2	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1942
The Century Hymnal #102	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1921
The Church School Hymnal for Youth #d4	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1928
The Hymnal: Published by Authority of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. #d3	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1933
The Hymnal: published by the Authority of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. #175	A thousand years have come and gone	Rev. Thomas T. Lynch						1895
The Hymnal, Published in 1895 and Revised in 1911 #182	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1912
The Hymnal : published in 1895 and revised in 1911 by authority of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America : with the supplement of 1917 #182	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch	Uzziah C. Burnap	8.6.8.6 D	EPHRATAH	C Major	English	1921
The Pilgrim Hymnal #85	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1904
The Pilgrim Hymnal: with responsive readings and other aids to worship #101	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1912
The Plymouth Hymnal #d7	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1893
The School Hymnal #40	A thousand years have come and gone	Rev. Thomas T. Lynch						1899
Unitarian Service Book, and Hymns for Church and Home. Abridged ed. #d4	A thousand years have come and gone	Thomas T. Lynch						1904

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