When He cometh, when He cometh
When He cometh, when He cometh. William Orcutt Cushing* (1823-1902).
Like Cushing’s ‘Ring the bells of Heaven, there is joy today’*, this was published in George F. Root* and B.R. Hanby’s The Red Bird, the Summer Number of ‘Our Song Birds’, a Juvenile Musical Quarterly (1866). It was entitled ‘Jewels’, from the first stanza:
When He cometh, when He cometh
To make up his jewels,
All his jewels, precious jewels,
His loved and His own;
This was followed by the refrain:
Like the stars of the morning,His bright crown adorning,They shall shine in their beauty,Bright gems for His crown.
Stanzas 2 and 3 were as follows:
He will gather, He will gatherThe gems for His kingdom;All the pure ones, all...
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