How is it going? I have Be Still My Soul more-or-less memorized...needs some more work but I can get through it. Such a good hymn; I will certainly be spending more time with it in the future.
This next hymn is one of my all-time favorites and I find it sad that so few hymnals include it. I found it a couple of years ago when I was going through my Sound Foundations hymnal (known as Hymns for the Living Church to normal people) marking all the hymns in minor keys. :) The words are an ancient Greek hymn and they remind me of those Christians who have lived through dark and troubled times but look forward with hope to the coming of Christ.
Here is the link on Cyber Hymnal. I have posted only the verses used in the hymnal but there are two more at the above link if you want to take a look. Unfortunately my favorite tune, the beautiful minor folk melody used in the SF hymnal, isn't on there...for you people who have it (meaning the SF hymnal) it's somewhere around number 181 or 183. I don't remember for certain and my SF hymnal went AWOL some time ago, to my sorrow. Anyway...enjoy and have a good week!
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.
O brighter than the rising morn
When He, victorious, rose,
And left the lonesome place of death,
Despite the rage of foes.
O brighter than that glorious morn
Shall this fair morning be,
When Christ, our King, in beauty comes,
And we His face shall see.
The King shall come when morning dawns,
And light and beauty brings:
Hail, Christ the Lord! Thy people pray,
Come quickly, King of kings.
2 comments:
Hi Rachel!
I'm also really enjoying the "hymn of the week." It's hard to believe that we're already on the fifth hymn!
I must admit a deviation from the standard when "Ah Holy Jesus" was the song. I wasn't able to print the score to learn the tune (and I'm not fond of MIDI renditions...) so I chose my own song that week. "Arise My Soul, Arise" by Charles Wesley was my choice. After all, I have to have something to do while I clean the bathroom!
I'm going to attemp "The King Shall Come" but might make up my own tune. :) I just finished reading Acts about the early Christians... it's fun to think that maybe it was one of Paul's Greek disciples who wrote this hymn! I'm really enjoying this; thanks for the fun project.
Love you! ~Lisa
Thank you, Lisa! I certainly have no objection to your picking a different hymn now and again. I know it's hard to learn something you have never heard before. "King Shall Come" might actually memorize well as poetry... :)
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