Ten Thousand Times { Ten Thousand Times ALFORD-John Bacchus Dykes KOMM, SEELE-Johann Wolfgang Franck Ten Thousand Times } Ten thousand times ten thousand, In sparkling raiment bright, The armies of the ransom'd saints Throng up the steps of light; 'Tis finished, all is finished, Their fight with death and sin; Fling open wide the golden gates, And let the victors in. Chorus Hallelujah! Hallelujah To the Lamb who once was slain! Hallelujah! Hallelujah To Him who lives again! What rush a hallelujahs Fill all the earth and sky! What ringing of a thousand harps Bespeaks the triumphs nigh! O day, for which creation And all its tribes were made! O joy, for all its former woes A thousand-fold repaid! O, then what raptured greetings On Canaan's happy shore! What knitting severed friendships up, Where partings are no more. Then eyes with joy shall sparkle, That brimm'd with tears of late; Orphans no longer fatherless, Nor widows desolate.