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LO! He cometh! countless trumpets Sound to raise the sleeping dead! Many thousand saints and angels, See our great exalted Head! Hallelujah! Come, O come! Thou Son of God. |
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2 | Full of joyful expectation, Saints, behold the Judge appear; Truth and justice go before Him, Now the joyful sentence hear! Hallelujah! Come, O come! Thou Son of God. |
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3 | ‘Come, ye blessèd of My Father, Enter into life and joy! Banish all your fears and sorrows, Endless praise be your employ!’ Hallelujah! Come and meet us in the skies. |
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4 | Then shall we arise to glory, Jesus leading as our King; There, with all the hosts of Heaven, We eternal anthems sing: Hallelujah! Boundless glory to the Lamb. |
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John Cennick, 1718-55, Caleb Evans’ Collection, 1769 |