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Text: | Ten thousand times ten thousand |
Author: | Dean Henry Alford, 1810-1871 |
Tune: | ALFORD |
Composer: | Dr. J. B. Dykes, 1823-1876 |
1 Ten thousand times ten thousand,
In sparkling raiment bright,
The armies of the ransomed saints
Throng up the steeps of light;
Tis finished, all is finished,
Their fight with death and sin;
Fling open wide the golden gates,
And let the victors in.
2 What rush of hallelujahs
Fills all the earth and sky!
What ringing of a thousand harps
Bespeaks the triumph nigh!
O day for which creation
And all its tribes were made!
O joy, for all its former woes
A thousand-fold repaid!
3 O then what raptured greetings
On Canaan's happy shore,
What knitting severed friendships up
Where partings are no more!
Then eyes with joy shall sparkle
That brimmed with tears of late;
Orphans no longer fatherless,
Nor widows desolate.
4 Bring near Thy great salvation,
Thou Lamb for sinners slain;
Fill up the roll of Thine elect,
Then take Thy power and reign;
Appear, Desire of nations
Thine exiles long for home;
Show in the heaven Thy promised sign;
Thou Prince and Saviour, come.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Ten thousand times ten thousand |
Author: | Dean Henry Alford, 1810-1871 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | The Christian Life: Time, Death, Eternity; Heaven: Friends in; Heaven: Reunion in(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ALFORD |
Composer: | Dr. J. B. Dykes, 1823-1876 |
Meter: | 7.6.8.6.7.6.8.6 |
Key: | A♭ Major |