How Long?
- Words:
- Anon
- Music:
- Webb
Sheet music
- 1How long, O Lord our Savior,Will Thou remain away?Our hearts are growing wearyOf Thy so long delay.O when shall come the moment,When, brighter far than morn,The sunshine of Thy gloryShall on Thy people dawn?
- 2How long, O gracious Master,Wilt Thou Thy household leave?So long hast Thou now tarried,Few Thy return believe.Immersed in sloth and folly,Thy servants, Lord, we see;And few of us stand readyWith joy to welcome Thee.
- 3O, wake Thy slumb’ring people;Send forth the solemn cry;Let all the saints repeat it,–“The Savior draweth nigh!”May all our lamps be burning,Our loins well girded be,Each longing heart preparingWith joy Thy face to see.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 70 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.