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Text: | The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns |
Translator: | John Brownlie |
Tune: | ST. STEPHEN |
Composer: | Williams Jones |
1 The King shall come when morning dawns,
And light triumphant breaks;
When beauty gilds the eastern hills,
And life to joy awakes.
2 Not as of old a little child
To bear, and fight, and die,
But crowned with glory like the sun
That lights the morning sky.
3 O brighter than the rising morn
When He, victorious, rose,
And left the lonesome place of death,
Despite the rage of foes—
4 O brighter than that glorious morn
Shall this fair morning be,
When Christ, our King, in beauty comes,
And we His face shall see!
5 The King shall come when morning dawns,
And light and beauty brings:
Hail, Christ the Lord! Thy people pray,
Come quickly, King of Kings.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The King shall come when morning dawns |
Title: | The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns |
Translator: | John Brownlie (1907) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Publication Date: | 1955 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Christ: Second Coming; Jesus Christ: His Coming in Glory |
Source: | Based on the Greek |
Copyright: | Words from Hymns of the Russian Church. Used by permission of Oxford University Press. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. STEPHEN |
Composer: | Williams Jones (1789) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | G Major |