73 Advent

1. The King shall come when morning dawns

and light triumphant breaks;

when beauty gilds the eastern hills

and life to joy awakes.

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.

3. The King shall come when morning dawns

and earth's dark night is past;

O haste the rising of that morn,

the day that e'er shall last;

4. and let the endless bliss begin,

by weary saints foretold,

when right shall triumph over wrong,

and truth shall be extolled.

5. The King shallcome when morning dawns

and lights and beauty brings:

Hail, Christ the Lord! Thy people pray,

come quickly, King of kings.

Words: Greek; tr. John Brownlie (1858-1925), slt. Music: St. Stephen, William Jones (1726-1800), alt.