The Cyber Hymnal ‎#4081

4081. Lift Up Your Heads, Rejoice

1. Lift up your heads, rejoice, redemption draweth nigh;
Now breathes a softer air, now shines a milder sky;
The early trees put forth their new and tender leaf;
Hushed is the moaning wind that told of winter’s grief.

2. Lift up your heads, rejoice, redemption draweth nigh;
Now mount the laden clouds, now flames the darkening sky;
The early scattered drops descend with heavy fall,
And to the waiting earth the hidden thunders call.

3. Lift up your heads, rejoice, redemption draweth nigh;
O note the varying signs of earth, and air, and sky;
The God of glory comes in gentleness and might,
To comfort and alarm, to succor and to smite.

4. He comes, the wide world’s King, He comes, the true heart’s Friend,
New gladness to begin, and ancient wrong to end;
He comes, to fill with light the weary waiting eye;
Lift up your heads, rejoice, redemption draweth nigh.

Text Information

• First Line: Lift up your heads, rejoice, redemption draweth nigh
• Title: Lift Up Your Heads, Rejoice
• Author: Thomas T. Lynch (1856, 1868)
• Meter: 12.12.12.12
• Language: English
• Source: the Rivulet 1856, 1868
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: THE BLESSED HOME
• Composer: John Stainer (1875)
• Meter: 12.12.12.12
• Incipit: 32675 13267 51176
• Key: A♭ Major
• Source: Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1875
• Copyright: Public Domain