Hail to the Lord who comes (Wilfrid Jones)

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• (Posted 2025-07-23)  CPDL #86044:     

Editor: Wilfrid Jones (submitted 2025-07-23).   Score information: Octavo, 1 page, 34 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Hail to the Lord who comes
Composer: Wilfrid Jones
Lyricist: John Ellerton
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn for Candlemas

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2025

External websites:

• The St Norbert Psalter.

Original text and translations

English text

Hail to the Lord who comes,
comes to his temple gate,
not with his angel host,
not in his kingly state:
no shouts proclaim him nigh,
no crowds his coming wait.

But borne upon the throne
of Mary's gentle breast,
watched by her duteous love,
in her fond arms at rest;
thus to his Father's house
he comes, the heavenly guest.

There Joseph at her side
in reverent wonder stands;
and, filled with holy joy,
old Simeon in his hands
takes up the promised child,
the glory of all lands.

Hail to the great First-born,
whose ransom-price they pay,
the Son before all worlds,
the child of man to-day,
that he might ransom us
who still in bondage lay.

O Light of all the earth,
thy children wait for thee:
come to thy temples here,
that we, from sin set free,
before thy Father's face
may all presented be.