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Wake, ye saints, from sleep awake - Waking the slumberers (James George Deck/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

Waking the slumberers.

Advent hymn.

1. Wake, ye saints, from sleep awake,
now your lamps all burning take;
    hark, the loud, the midnight cry,
        Christ, your Lord, is nigh!
Long and drear has been the night,
lo! the morning-star shines bright;
    soon the long-expected day
        will its power display. PDF - Midi

2. Strangers in this world of woe,
dead to every hope below,
    let us wait till Christ shall come
        to receive us home:
Gird your loins, all ready be!
Shout with joy your Lord to see:
    lo! the Lamb for us was slain,
        we with him shall reign.

3. "Come, Lord Jesus, come!" we cry,
"Come!" Creation's groans reply, –
    chase the gloomy night away,
        bring the cloudless day;
thou hast washed us in thy blood,
made us kings and priests to God;
    come and claim thy ransomed Bride:
        thou for her hast died!

4. Sun of Righteousness, arise!
Let thy glory fill the skies,
    let the earth thy brightness see,
        set creation free;
sit on thine exalted throne,
take the kingdoms for thine own:
    worthy is the Lamb once slain,
        worthy thou to reign.

James George Deck, Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1906, 48-49.

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