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Saturday Advent Song: "The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns"
This entry was posted on 12/19/2009 9:18 AM and is filed under Music, Episcopal.
Another gorgeous tune for the season. The end of days seems like a scary concept, but this hymn reminds us that what we're really praying for is the beginning of the new age when God's love and justice will be extended to all people.
The King shall come when morning dawns,
and light triumphant breaks;
when beauty gilds the eastern hills
and life to joy awakes.
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.
The King shall come when morning dawns
and earth's dark night is past;
O haste the rising of that morn,
the day that e'er shall last;
and let the endless bliss begin,
by weary saints foretold,
when right shall triumph over wrong,
and truth shall be extolled.
The King shall come when morning dawns
and light and beauty brings:
Hail, Christ the Lord! Thy people come,
come quickly, King of kings.
Music: St. Stephen Wiliam Jones (18th C)
Words: Greek hymn, trans. John Brownlie (20thC)
