Bible Songs — Judgment and Second Advent

Christ Returneth

It may be at morn, when the day is awaking,

No. 1318
Tune CHRIST RETURNETH.
Words H. L. Turner.
Music James McGranahan.
Key D major
Singing key B♭ major
Time 3/4 4/4
3 stanzas

Words

It may be at morn, when the day is awaking,When sunlight thro' darkness and shadow is breaking,That Jesus will come in the fullness of gloryTo receive from the world his own.

Chorus.

O Lord Jesus, how long, how longEre we shout the glad song?Christ returneth, Hallelujah! hallelujah! Amen,Hallelujah! Amen.

It may be at midday, it may be at twilight,It may be, perchance, that the blackness of midnightWill burst into light in the blaze of his glory,When Jesus receives his own.

O joy! O delight! should we go without dying,No sickness, no sadness, no dread, and no crying,Caught up thro' the clouds with our Lord into glory,When Jesus receives his own.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1318» (large) at the left, title «CHRIST RETURNETH.» centred (condensed bold capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph from 1 Thess. 4:16, 17 in three lines of smaller roman (given below; «to- / gether» joined, the thin spaces before the colons closed up, «ana» kept as printed — a printer's slip for «and», see `uncertainties.md`); «H. L. TURNER.» (the words) at the left and «JAMES MCGRANAHAN.» (the music) at the right above system 1, both in capitals and small capitals; «CHORUS.» in bold capitals above the fourth system; «rit.» over the last bars; «By permission.» under the music and the printer's signature «34» at the bottom left (not transcribed in the hymn), folio «529». The page holds this hymn only; it opens the section «Judgment and Second Advent» (CONTENTS: 1318-1345). No meter, no tune name other than the title, no reference line. The three stanzas are interlinear in the first three systems, numbered «1.»–«3.» in system 1; the CHORUS is printed once (systems 4-5) and is sung after every stanza. Verse lines are given one per line, by the rhymes (awaking/breaking, twilight/midnight, dying/crying) and the music's phrases; the chorus lines follow its phrases (each of the last two ends on «Amen»). Words divided under the notes are joined («a - wak-ing», «dark - ness», «shad - ow», «break-ing», «Je - sus», «full - ness», «glo - ry», «re - ceive», «mid - day», «twi-light», «per- / chance» across the system break, «mid - night», «in - to», «re - ceives», «de - light», «with-out», «dy - ing», «sick-ness», «sad - ness», «cry - ing», «re- / turn - eth» across the system break, «Hal - le - lu - jah», «A - men»); «midday» and «midnight» are written as the book writes them elsewhere. Several words are printed solid under two notes («sunlight», «twilight,», «without», «sickness,», «blackness», «Amen,») and «that the» is printed «thatthe» (no word space); the «ic» of «sickness» (stanza 3) is broken in this copy. The print sets a thin space before «!», «?», «;» and «:»; it is closed up here. Spelling («thro'», «fullness», «Hallelujah», the small «h» of the second «hallelujah»), punctuation and capitals are the print's; apostrophes and quotation marks are written straight.