They Are Coming

See the faithful now returning

Author: Fanny Crosby
Tune: [See the faithful now returning]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 See the faithful now returning
From the battle and the strife,
They have held their post with valor,
And have reached the gate of life;
There amid the shout of angels,
While they enter one by one,
Robe and crown, and palm of triumph,
Tell of duties nobly done.

Refrain:
They are coming, they are coming
To the kingdom and the mansions of the blest;
They are coming, they are coming,
Hallelujah! they are coming home to rest.

2 See the reapers in the distance
From the summer harvest plain,
To the feet of their Redeemer
Bearing sheaves of golden grain;
And amid the joyful welcome,
With the ransomed host they sing,
Hallelujah! hallelujah!
Till the hallowed arches ring. [Refrain]

3 Then the grand old ship of Zion
Drops her anchor in the bay,
Where her thousands and her millions
She has carried many a day;
And the armies of the faithful,
And the reapers as they come,
To the mariners returning
Shout again the welcome home. [Refrain]

4 Oh, the meeting with the loved ones
That were parted many years!
Oh, the bright, celestial dawning
That shall never set in tears!
O, to join that countless number
In a land of fadeless flowers,
Who would mind the cares and heart-aches
In this fleeting world of ours? [Refrain]

Source: On Joyful Wing : A Book of Praise and Song #12

Author: Fanny Crosby

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Text Information

First Line: See the faithful now returning
Title: They Are Coming
Author: Fanny Crosby
Language: English
Refrain First Line: They are coming, they are coming
Copyright: Public Domain

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On Joyful Wing #12

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Temple Trio #12

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