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Download the listening track for The King Shall Come by Traditional Hymn, from the album Open Hymnal.

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Verse 1 The King shall come when morning dawns, and light triumphant breaks; When beauty gilds the eastern hills, and life to joy awakes. Verse 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. Verse 3 O brighter than the rising morn when He, victorious, rose, And left the lonesome place of death, despite the rage of foes. Verse 4 O brighter than that glorious morn shall this fair morning be, When Christ, our King, in beauty comes, and we His face shall see. Verse 5 The King shall come when morning dawns, and earth's dark night is past; O haste the rising of that morn, the day that aye shall last. Verse 6 And let the endless bliss begin, by weary saints foretold, When right shall triumph over wrong, and truth shall be extolled. Verse 7 The King shall come when morning dawns, and light and beauty brings, Hail, Christ the Lord! Thy people pray, come quickly, King of kings....

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