The King Shall Come
Words and music by John Wyeth · tr. John Brownlie · 1907
Key of Ab · 100 BPM · 4/4 · Anticipation,Christmas/Advent,Crown · Zeph 1:14
Verse 1
The King shall come when morning dawns, And light triumphant breaks;
When beauty gilds the eastern hills, And life to joy awakes.
Verse 2
Not as of old a little child To bear, and fight, and die,
But crowned with glory like the sun That lights the morning sky.
Verse 3
O brighter than the rising morn When He, victorious, rose,
And left the lonesome place of death, Despite the rage of foes.
Verse 4
O brighter than that glorious morn Shall this fair morning be,
When Christ, our King, in beauty comes, And we His face shall see.
Verse 5
The 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.
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