New Jerusalem. C. M

Lo, what a glorious sight appears

p. 4
Metre C. M.
Key B-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 6/8
6 stanzas

Words

Lo, what a glorious sight appears,
To our believing eyes;
'The earth and seas are passed away,
And the old rolling skies!
*Chorus:* And the old rolling skies! And the old rolling skies!
The earth and seas are passed away, And the old rolling skies!
O that will be joyful, joyful, joyful,
O that will be joyful, When we meet to part no more,
When we meet to part no more, On Canaan's happy shore.
'Tis there we'll meet at Jesus' feet, When we meet to part no more.

From the third heav'n, where God resides,
That holy, happy place;
The New Jerusalem comes down,
Adorned with shining grace.
*Chorus (as printed under the second staff):* Adorn'd with shining grace, Adorned with, &c.
The new Jerusalem comes down, Adorn'd with shining grace. O that will be joyful, &c.

Attending angels shout for joy,
And the bright armies sing,
"Mortals, behold the sacred seat
Of your descending King!
*Chorus (as printed under the bass):* Of your descending King! Of your, &c.
Mortals behold the sacred seat Of your descending King! O that will be joyful, &c.

"The God of glory down to men
Removes his blest abode;
Men are the objects of his love,
And he their gracious God.

"His own soft hand shall wipe the tears
From every weeping eye;
And pains, and groans, and griefs, and fears,
And death itself, shall die."

How bright the vision! O, how long
Shall this glad hour delay?
Fly swifter round, ye wheels of time,
And bring the welcome day!

Notes: "heav'n", "Adorn'd" / "Adorned" (both forms printed), "Canaan's", "'Tis" as printed. The leading apostrophe of "'The earth" (stanza 1, line 3) and the opening double quote before "Mortals" (stanza 3, closed at the end of stanza 5) are in the print. Spaced punctuation of the letterpress ("eyes ;", "abode ;", "vision !") is normalized here; `lyrics_syllables.txt` keeps it. Line breaks follow the C. M. verse (8.6.8.6).

About this hymn

As printed As printed: three staves per system (treble, second treble, bass). On p. 4 each staff carries its own stanza between braces — stanza 1 under the treble, stanza 2 under the second, stanza 3 under the bass — two text lines per brace, sung to the same five bars (first line on the first pass, second line on the repeat). The chorus continues each stanza's last line under its own staff ("And the old rolling skies!" / "Adorn'd with shining grace" / "Of your descending King!", with "&c." where the printer ran out of room) and from "O that will be joyful" on (p. 5) a single text line under the treble serves all. Stanzas 4–6 are printed as text at the foot of p. 5 (Improved Edition; the first edition prints only stanza 4 and a footnote "See entire hymn on page 5, 'Millennial Musings.'").