Hark! Creation’s Alleluia

1.

Hark! Creation’s Alleluia

Rising from a thousand shores

Vibrates sweet as angel voices

Loud as many waters roar

“Blessing, glory, power, salvation

To our God upon the throne

`Father, Son and Holy Spirit

Infinite supreme, alone”

2.

On and on, from dawn to sunset

Borne on every changeful wind

From the myriad minded peoples

Of the hoary climes of Ind

From the ransom’d sons of Afric

From old sinim’s crowded lands

From the freeborn wanderes roaming

Araby’s unconquer’d sands

3.

From the coasts of ice to regions

Where perpetual summer smiles

From the sunny-hearted children

Of the far pacific isles

From the numbers without number

Of rejoicing Christendom

From the watchers for His advent

Who will soon to Zion come

4.

Gathering strength from every nation

Every kindred, tribe and tongue

Hark, that everlasting anthem

Hark, that glorious tide of song

Floods the valley with its music

Echoes from the lasting hills

Onward, upward, till the temple

Of the living God it fills

5.

Hark, it mingles with the raptures

Of the armies of the sky

Who have pass’d through tribulation

Into perfect rest on high

Clothed in robes of spotless beauty

Palms of triumph in their hands

Harping on their harps Hosannas

As before His face they stand

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Glory unto Him who loved us

Him who wash’d us with His blood

Kings and priests henceforth for ever

To our father and our God

Alleluia! Saints and angels

Raise your loudest, loftiest strains

Alleluia! Hell is vaniquished

God the Lord Almighty reign