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ADVENT HYMNS.

The Advent

You will see your Lord a coming,

  • No. 1
  • 9 stanzas
  • Words only in the original
1

You will see your Lord a coming,You will see your Lord a coming,You will see your Lord a coming,To the old church yards,With a band of music,With a band of music,With a band of music,Sounding it through the air.

2

Hear Gabriel with his trumpet, &c.At the old church yards,It's a band of music, &c.He will sound it, &c.

3

He'll awake all the nations, &c.In the old church yards,It's a band of music, &c.Hear them sound it, &c.

4

You will see the saints a marching,From the old church yards,With a band of music, &c.Hear them sound it, &c.

5

We will march into the city, &c.From the old church yards,With the band of music, &c.Hear it sounding, &c.

6

O sinners, you will tremble, &c.At their sounding through the air;Its a band of music, &c.Hear them sound it, &c.

7

You will call for rocks and mountains,At the old church yards;It's a band of music, &c.They will sound it, &c.

8

There will be a mighty wailing, &c.In the old church yards,It's a band of music, &c,Hear them sound it, &c.

9

We will shout our sufferings o'er, &c.From the old church yards,With the band of music, &c.Hear them sound it, &c.

About this hymn

As printed Read by eye from the archive.org camera originals (`hymnsdesignedfor00slns_orig_jp2`, leaf = PDF page), with the PDF text layer (OCR) as witness only. The printer's thin space before «;», «:», «?» and «!» is not reproduced. Stanzas are not numbered in the print; they are numbered here only by their order (in the frontmatter count), not in the text.

Source
Hymns designed for the use of the Second Advent Band (1843), words only
Where
ADVENT HYMNS. · No. 1 · printed page 3
Checked
lyrics verified · 2026-09-25