The King shall come when morning dawns (William Jones)

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• (Posted 2022-01-03)  CPDL #67393:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-01-03).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 40 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn with harmony and underlaid words in the version published in The Hymnal 1982

• (Posted 2022-01-03)  CPDL #67392:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-01-03).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 77 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words

General Information

Title: The King shall come when morning dawns
Composer: William Jones
Tune: St Stephen
Lyricist:

Translation by John Brownlie

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard

First published:
Description: Descants to the hymn are available by Alan Gray and Geoffrey Shaw.

External websites:

• https://embassysingers.de/scores/hymns.html

Original text and translations

English text

The King shall come when morning dawns
and light triumphant breaks;
when beauty gilds the eastern hills
and life 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;
O haste the rising of that 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! Thy people pray,
come quickly, King of kings.