The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns - Lyrics

The King shall come when morning dawns
and light triumphant breaks
when beauty gilds the eastern hills
and life to joy awakes


Not as of old a little child
to bear and fight and die
but crowned with glory like the sun
that lights the morning sky


O brighter than the rising morn
when He victorious rose
and left the lonesome place of death
despite the rage of foes


O brighter than that glorious morn
shall this fair morning be
when Christ our King in beauty comes
and we His face shall see


The King shall come when morning dawns
and earth's dark night is past
O haste the rising of that morn
the day that aye shall last


And let the endless bliss begin
by weary saints foretold
when right shall triumph over wrong
and truth shall be extolled


The King shall come when morning dawns
and light and beauty brings
Hail Christ the Lord Thy people pray
come quickly King of kings