Hail to the Lord who comes (Anonymous)
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- (Posted 2021-03-02) CPDL #63275:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-03-02). Score information: A4, 1 page, 40 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with four-part harmony and underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard
- (Posted 2021-03-02) CPDL #63274:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-03-02). Score information: A4, 1 page, 111 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Hail to the Lord who comes
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Old 120th
Lyricist: John Ellerton
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 66. 66. 66
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published:
2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 314
Description: Melody from Psalms, 1570. For a descant, see Old 120th (Andrew Sims).
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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.