Waiting for Christ

Christian, the morn breaks sweetly o'er thee

No. 862
Metre 9s & 8s. D.
Tune MORNING LIGHT.
Words John F. Rusling.
Music Unknown.
Key E-flat major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 4/4
3 stanzas

Words

Christian, the morn breaks sweetly o'er thee,And all the midnight shadows flee;Tinged are the distant skies with glory,A beacon-light hangs out for thee.Arise, arise, the light breaks o'er thee,Thy name is graven on the throne;Thy home is in that world of gloryWhere thy Redeemer reigns alone.

Tossed on time's rude, relentless surges,Calmly composed and dauntless, stand;For lo, beyond those scenes emergesThe hights that bound the promised land.Christian, behold, the land is nearing,Where the wild sea-storm's rage is o'er;Hark, how the heavenly hosts are cheering!See in what throngs they range the shore.

Cheer up, cheer up, the day breaks o'er thee,Bright as the summer's noon-tide ray;The star-gemmed crowns and realms of gloryInvite thy happy soul away.Away, away, leave all for glory,Thy name is graven on the throne,Thy home is in that world of beautyWhere thy Redeemer reigns alone.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «WAITING FOR CHRIST—CLOSING WORK.»; hymn number «862» (large), tune name «MORNING LIGHT. 9s & 8s. D.» centred over the music (condensed capitals; the «D.» in a smaller size), «UNKNOWN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear under the treble staff, «1.» before «Christian», over three systems (system 1: verse lines 1–2 and «Tinged are the distant»; system 2: «skies with glory,», lines 4–5 and «Thy»; system 3: the rest of line 6 and lines 7–8). «Christian,» is set unbroken under two notes; «sweet - ly», «shad - ows», «dis - tant», «glo - ry», «A - rise», «a - rise», «grav - en», «a - lone» with spaced hyphens; «mid-night» and «bea-con-light» with close hyphens; «Re- deem - er» with the first hyphen against «Re». No reference line is printed for this hymn. Stanzas 2–3 follow as text in the left column, numbered «2», «3» without a full stop (numbered «2.», «3.» here like stanza 1), with «John F. Rusling.» in italics after stanza 3; lines 2, 4, 6, 8 of each stanza are indented. Verse lines broken by the column width are joined here: stanza 2 line 7 («cheer- / ing!» → «cheering!»), stanza 3 line 1 («o'er / thee,»), stanza 3 line 3 («realms of / glory»). The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» and a loose space before one comma («flee ;», «throne ;», «stand ;», «o'er ;», «ray ;», «ing !», «throne ,»); it is closed up here. Apostrophes are written straight («o'er», «time's», «sea-storm's», «summer's»). Spelling («hights», «noon-tide», «star-gemmed»), punctuation and capitals are the print's. Stanza 1, line 7 reads «world of glory» under the music; stanza 3, line 7 reads «world of beauty» — both as printed.