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The King Shall Come
Verse 1
The King shall come when morning dawns
And light triumphant breaks;
When beauty gilds the eastern hills,
And life to joy awakes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And earth's dark night is past:
O haste the rising of that morn,
The day that aye shall last.
A hymn about Christ's second coming as King from the 1940 Church Hymnal.