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Text:Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending
Author:Charles Wesley
Tune:HELMSLEY
Arranger:Ralph Vaughan Williams

364. Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending

1. Lo! he comes with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain!
Thousand, thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of his train.
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
God appears on Earth to reign.

2. Ev'ry eye shall now behold him,
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to a tree,
Deeply wailing,
Deeply wailing,
Deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.

3. The dear tokens of his passion
Still his dazzling body bears,
Cause of endless exultation
To his ransomed worshipers;
With what rapture,
With what rapture,
With what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars.

4. Yea! Amen! let all adore thee
High on thine eternal throne!
Savior, take the pow'r and glory,
Claim the kingdom for thine own.
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Everlasting God come down.

Text Information
First Line: Lo! he comes with clouds descending
Title: Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending
Author: Charles Wesley (1758)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7
Language: English
Publication Date: 2024
Scripture:
Topic: Ordinary Time: Week 29
Notes: Text by Charles Wesley, founder of Methodism, from Hymns of Intercession for All Mankind (1758), alt.
Tune Information
Name: HELMSLEY
Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7
Incipit: 13517 65671
Key: G Major or modal
Source: Martin Madan's Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, ca. 1765
Notes: Tune HELMSLEY, unknown composer, from Martin Madan’s Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (ca. 1765), arr. by Ralph Vaughan Williams for The English Hymnal (1906).



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