Festival of Lessons & Carols
Carol: Lo! He Comes with Coulds Descending
Please stand, if you are able, to sing
Lo he comes with clouds descending
Once for all sinners slain
Thousand thousand saints descending
Swell the triumph of his train
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
God appears on earth 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 a 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 worshippers
With what rapture,
With what rapture,
With what rapture,
Gaze we on those glorious scars!
Yes, amen! Let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne
Saviour, take the power and glory;
Claim the kingdom for thine own
O come quickly!
O come quickly!
O come quickly!
Alleluia! Come, Lord, Come!
Once for all sinners slain
Thousand thousand saints descending
Swell the triumph of his train
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
God appears on earth 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 a 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 worshippers
With what rapture,
With what rapture,
With what rapture,
Gaze we on those glorious scars!
Yes, amen! Let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne
Saviour, take the power and glory;
Claim the kingdom for thine own
O come quickly!
O come quickly!
O come quickly!
Alleluia! Come, Lord, Come!
Please sit