Oh, the glo­ri­ous day is com­ing,
By faith its dawn­ing see!
When right­eous­ness shall rule the world,
And men in­deed be free:
When wea­ry souls shall cease to mourn,
By weight of woe op­pressed;
When Christ shall reign in ev­ery heart,
By ev­ery tongue con­fessed.

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Oh, the glo­ri­ous day is coming—
Yes, ’tis com­ing! Hal­le­lu­jah!
Shout, O Earth, the joy­ful cry!
See! the glo­ry beams are ev­en now il­lum­ing
The glow­ing ban­ners of the morn­ing sky.

Yes, the Lord is sure­ly com­ing,
His king­dom draweth nigh,
When gloom and night shall flee away,
And er­ror writhe and die.
Lo, He shall come, and by His pow­er
Redeem the world from sin;
The thou­sand years so long fore­told
In that day shall be­gin.

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Then the Con­quer­or of the na­tions
Shall ban­ish ev­ery wrong,
And earth, now sad with sighs and tears,
Shall then be filled with song:
And we shall lay our ar­mor down,
Our earth­ly war­fare o’er,
Called home to be with God, and reign
With Him for­ev­er­more.

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