{
The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns
by
Greek (Tr. John Brownlie)
IRISH-A collection of hymns and sacred poems, Dub
lin, 1749
MORNING SONG-John Wyeth, Repository of Sacred Mus
ic, Part II, 1813
JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM-Thomas Hastings
ST. STEPHEN-Rev. William Jones
The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns
}
The king shall come when morning dawns
And light triumphant breaks;
When beauty guilds the eastern hills
And light to joy awakes.
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.
The king shall come when morning dawns
And earth's dark night is past;
Oh haste the rising of the morn,
The day that e'er shall last;
And let the endless bliss begin,
By weary saints foretold,
When right shall triumph over wrong,
And truth shall be extolled.
The king shall come when morning dawns
And light and beauty brings:
Hail, Christ the Lord! By people pray,
Come quickly, king of kings.