LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 7 8 7 7 7
| | Writer(s): | Thomas Kelly
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1809
| | Bible Refs: | 1 Th 4:16
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MUSIC
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 139
| No key
| Hymns for Worship and Celebration
| 155
| F
| Hymns of Faith
| 156
| F
| Songs of Fellowship 1
| 438
| F
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 106
| G
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 32
| G
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 114
| G
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 859
| G
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| 1. Welcome sight! the Lord descending!
Jesus in the clouds appears;
Lo! the Savior comes, intending
Now to dry His people’s tears.
Lo! the Savior comes to reign:
Welcome to His waiting train.
2. Long they mourned their absent Master;
Long they felt like men forlorn;
Bid the seasons fly still faster,
While they sighed for His return:
Lo! the period comes at last;
All their sorrows now are past.
3. Now from home no longer banished,
They are going to their rest;
Though the heavens and earth have vanished,
With their Lord they shall be blest:
Blest with Him His saints shall be;
Blest throughout eternity!
4. Happy people! grace unbounded,
Grace alone, exalts you thus:
Be ashamed, and be confounded;
Sing for ever—“Not to us,
Not to us be glory given—
Glory to the God of Heaven!”
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