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St. Thomas (wade)

Lo! he comes, with clouds descending

The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal)

Metric Index

87. 87. 87

Modality

D Major

15-Pitch Humming Index

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Author

Charles Wesley [1707-1788]

Composer (melody, attr.)

John Francis Wade [1711-1786]

Harmonizer (attr.)

Vincent Francis Novello [1781-1861]

Language

English

Publication Date

1985

Last Five Uses

• Used on Dec 17, 2023 10:30 as the Communion Hymn at St. Mark's Episcopal, Honeybrook, PA
• Used on Dec 19, 2021 10:30 as the Entrance Hymn at St. Mark's Episcopal, Honeybrook, PA
• Used on Nov 11, 2018 10:30 as the Entrance Hymn at St. Mark's Episcopal, Honeybrook, PA
• Used on Dec 21, 2014 10:00 as the Entrance Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Dec 16, 2012 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA

Poem Words (Four verses)

Lo! he comes with clouds descending,
once for our salvation slain;
thousand, thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Christ the Lord returns to reign.

Every eye shall now behold him,
robed in dreadful majesty;
those who set at nought and sold him,
pierced, and nailed him to the tree,
deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
deeply wailing,
shall the true Messiah see.

Those dear tokens of his passion
still his dazzling body bears,
cause of endless exultation
to his ransomed worshipers;
with what rapture, with what rapture,
with what rapture,
gaze we on those glorious scars!

Yea, amen! let all adore thee,
high on thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the power and glory;
claim the kingdom for thine own:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.