Ascension
See, The Lord Ascends In Triumph
- Words:
- Christopher Wordsworth, 1862, alt. Music: 'Rex Gloriae' Henry Thomas Smart, 1868.
- Setting:
- "Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.
- Metre:
- 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 7
- 1See, the Lord ascends in triumph;see the King in royal state,Riding on the clouds, His chariot,To His heav'nly palace gate.Hark! the choirs of angel voicesJoyful alleluias sing,And the portals high are liftedTo receive their heav'nly King.Holy Ghost, Illuminator,shed Thy beams upon our eyes,Help us to look up with Stephen,and to see beyond the skies,Where the Son of Man in gloryStanding is at God's right hand,Beck'ning on His martyr army,succoring His faithful band.
- 2Who is this that comes in glory,with the trump of jubilee?Lord of battles, God of armies,He has gained the victory.He Who on the cross did suffer,He who from the grave arose,He has vanquished sin and Satan,He by death has spoiled His foes.See Him, Who is gone before us,Heav'nly mansions to prepare,See Him, who is ever pleadingFor us with prevailing prayer,See Him, who with sound of trumpet,and with His angelic train,Summoning the world to judgment,on the clouds will come again.
- 3While He lifts His hands in blessing,He is parted from His friendsWhile their eager eyes behold Him,He upon the cloud ascends;He Who walked with God and pleased Him,preaching truth and doom to come,He, our Enoch, is translatedto His everlasting home.Raise us up from earth to Heaven,give us wings of faith and love,Gales of holy aspirationswafting us to realms above;That, with hearts and minds uplifted,we with Christ our Lord may dwell,Where He sits enthroned in gloryin His heav'nly Citadel.
- 4Now our heav'nly Aaron enters,with His blood, within the veil;Joshua now is come to Canaan,and the kings before Him quail;Now He plants the tribes of Israelin their promised resting place;Now our great Elijah offersdouble portion of His grace.So at last, when He appeareth,we from out our graves may spring,With our youth renewed like eagles,flocking round our Heav'nly King.Caught up on the clouds of Heaven,and may meet Him in the air,Rise to realms where He is reigning,and may reign for ever there.
- 5He has raised our human naturein the clouds to God's right hand;There we sit in heav'nly places,there with Him in glory stand:Jesus reigns, adored by angels;man with God is on the throne;Mighty Lord, in Thine ascensionwe by faith behold our own.Glory be to God the Father,Glory be to God the Son,Dying, ris'n, ascending for us,who the heav'nly realm has won;Glory to the Holy Spirit,To One God in Persons Three;Glory both in earth and Heaven,glory, endless glory, be.
Scripture
Topics
- Angels
- Aspiration
- Atonement
- Blood
- Church in Heaven (Church Victorious/Church Triumphant)
- Cloud
- Cross
- Eternal Life
- Father
- Fear of the Lord
- God, As King
- God, Eternity of
- God, Faithfulness of
- God, Majesty & Power of
- God, Mercy of
- Gospel
- Grace
- Heaven
- Holy Spirit
- Israel
- Jesus
- Judgment
- Martyrs
- Praise, Son
- Presence
- Resurrection
- Salvation
- Second Coming
- Trinity
- Victory
- Worship
In the hymnals
- The tune, Rex Gloriae, is in 116 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. 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.