The Lord is coming in the clouds

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The Lord is coming in the clouds

Tune: MARYTON
Published in 4 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	African-American Organ Music Anthology,…

Representative Text

1 The Lord is coming in the clouds,
Is coming with angelic crowds;
A universal shout shall rend
The air, and Jesus will descend.

2 How grand the pomp of His descent!
What glory waits on the event!
The glory that to Heaven belongs
Is His, and His the angels’ songs.

3 Unlike to those who nothing see
Beyond the world, those men should be
Who look for Jesus in the air,
And know that they shall meet Him there.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16885

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First Line:	The Lord is coming in the clouds
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

MARYTON

After various tunes had been set to this text, Gladden insisted on the use of MARYTON. Composed by H. Percy Smith (b. Malta, 1825; d. Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, 1898), the tune was originally published as a setting for John Keble's "Sun of My Soul" in Arthur S. Sullivan's Church Hymns with Tun…

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