Waiting for Christ

Come, Lord, and tarry not

No. 814
Metre S. M.
Tune LEIGHTON.
Words Horatius Bonar.
Music Henery W. Greatorex.
Key A-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 3/4
5 stanzas

Words

Come, Lord, and tarry not;Bring the long-looked-for day;O why these years of waiting here?O why this long delay?

Come, for creation groans,Impatient of thy stay;Worn out by these long years of ill,These ages of delay.

Come, for the corn is ripe!Put in thy sickle now;Reap the great harvest of the earth;Sower and reaper thou.

Come, spoil the strong man's house,Bind him and cast him hence;Show thyself stronger than the strong,Thyself Omnipotence.

Come, and begin thy reignOf everlasting peace;Come, take the kingdom to thyself,Great King of righteousness.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «814» (large), tune name «LEIGHTON. S. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «HENERY W. GREATOREX.» at the right in the composer slot (capitals and small capitals; spelled «Henery» on this page — the same composer is printed «Henry» over hymn 577 — kept as printed). Running head «WAITING FOR CHRIST—CLOSING WORK.». Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves: «1. Come, Lord, and tar - ry not; Bring the long - looked - for day;» under system 1 and «O why these years of wait - ing here? O why this long de - lay?» under system 2. The reference line «810, 89, 732.» in italic figures stands centred over stanza 2 (sing also to the tunes of hymns 810, 89 and 732). Stanzas 2–5 are printed as text in the left column below the music, numbered «2»–«5» without periods (written «2.»–«5.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book); lines 2 and 4 are indented. «Horatius Bonar.» in italics after stanza 5. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» in the stanzas below the music («stay ;», «ripe !», «earth ;»); it is closed up here. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's («long-looked-for», «Omnipotence», «man's»).