Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand
- Words:
- Henry Alford
- Music:
- John B. Dykes
Sheet music
- 1Ten thousand times ten thousandIn sparkling raiment bright,The armies of the ransomed saintsThrong up the steeps of light;‘Tis finished, all is finished,Their fight with death and sin:Fling open wide the golden gates,And let the victors in.
- 2What rush of alleluiasFills all the earth and sky!What ringing of a thousand harpsBespeaks the triumph nigh!O day, for which creationAnd all its tribes were made;O joy, for all its former woesA thousand fold repaid!
- 3O then what raptured greetingsOn Canaan’s happy shore;What knitting severed friendships upWhere partings are no more!Then eyes with joy shall sparkle,That brimmed with tears of late;Orphans no longer fatherless,Nor widows desolate.
- 4Bring near Thy great salvation,Thou Lamb for sinners slain;Fill up the roll of Thine elect,Then take Thy pow’r, and reign;Appear, Desire of nations,Thine exiles long for home;Show in the heav’n Thy promised sign;Thou Prince and Savior, come.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1867, the words are in 452 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.