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:
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.