Come, Savior, Come
- Words:
- W. C. Gage
- Music:
- Henry C. Work
Sheet music
- 1O’er all the land have the signs now appeared,Telling us soon our dear Savior will come;Long has the worn pilgrim watched, hoped, and fearedWaiting for that blessed hope; O come, Savior, come.Bound forth the tidings, long, loud, and clear,Jesus is coming, and soon will appear;All hearts respond as we long for our home,“Quickly come, O blessed Jesus, come, Savior, come.”
- 2Signs in the sun and the moon and the stars,Faithfully show that the great day is near;Nations distressed by the rumors of wars,And the hearts of wicked men are failing for fear.Bound forth the tidings, long, loud, and clear,Jesus is coming, and soon will appear;All hearts respond as we long for our home,“Quickly come, O blessed Jesus, come, Savior, come.”
- 3These, to the pilgrim, are omens of cheer,Toiling and sighing in life’s gloomy way;All, all proclaim that the Savior is near,And the light is dawning of that soon coming day.Bound forth the tidings, long, loud, and clear,Jesus is coming, and soon will appear;All hearts respond as we long for our home,“Quickly come, O blessed Jesus, come, Savior, come.”
- 4Then let us rally, and fresh courage take;Soon will we bear our dear Lord’s loving voice;Those who will now all their errors forsake,Soon the pearly gates will enter,– sing and rejoice.Bound forth the tidings, long, loud, and clear,Jesus is coming, and soon will appear;All hearts respond as we long for our home,“Quickly come, O blessed Jesus, come, Savior, come.”
In the hymnals
- The words are in 6 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.