Advent
The King Shall Come
- Words:
- Unknown author. Translated by John Brownlie, 1907.
- Music:
- Music and
- Setting:
- 'Consolation' or 'Morning Song' John Wyeth, 1813.
- Metre:
- 8 6 8 6
- 1The King shall come when morning dawns,And light triumphant breaks;When beauty gilds the eastern hills,And life to joy awakes.
- 2Not as of old a little childTo bear, and fight, and die,But crowned with glory like the sunThat lights the morning sky.
- 3O brighter than the rising mornWhen He, victorious, rose,And left the lonesome place of death,Despite the rage of foes.
- 4O brighter than that glorious mornShall this fair morning be,When Christ, our King, in beauty comes,And we His face shall see.
- 5The King shall come when morning dawns,And earth's dark night is past;O haste the rising of that morn,The day that aye shall last.
- 6And let the endless bliss begin,By weary saints foretold,When right shall triumph over wrong,And truth shall be extolled.
- 7The King shall come when morning dawns,And light and beauty brings:Hail, Christ the Lord! Thy people pray,Come quickly, King of kings.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1907, the words are in 113 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Consolation, is in 1 hymnal. 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. Further sheet music is 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.