[Verse 1]
The advent of our King
Our prayers must now employ,
And we must hymns of welcome sing
In strains of holy joy.
[Verse 2]
The everlasting Son
Incarnate deigns to be;
Himself a servant's form puts on
To set His servants free.
[Verse 3]
O Zion's Daughter, rise
To meet thy lowly King,
Nor let thy faithless heart despise
The peace He comes to bring.
[Verse 4]
As judge, on clouds of light
He soon will come again
And His true members all unite
With Him in heaven to reign.
[Verse 5]
Before the dawning day
Let sin's dark deeds be gone,
The old man all be put away,
The new man all put on.
[Verse 6]
All glory to the Son,
Who comes to set us free,
With Father, Spirit, ever One,
Through all eternity.