| Wake! the welcome Day appeareth, How with joy our hearts it cheereth! Wake! the Lord’s great Year behold! That which holy men of old, Those who throng the Sacred Pages, Waited for through countless ages; Alleluia! Alleluia! | | Now the wished for Morning breaketh; Hark! how Sion’s daughter waketh Shouts of joy and jubilee, Thus His Advent-dawn to see: King and Bridegroom she enthrones Him, Though ’tis but a remnant owns Him; Alleluia! Alleluia! | | Patriarchs erst and priests aspiring, Kings and prophets long desiring, Saw not this before they died: Lo! the Light to them denied! See its beams to earth directed! Welcome, O Thou long-expected! Alleluia! Alleluia! | | He, the Saviour sent from heaven, Once through faith to Abram given, Israel’s Sun and glorious King, Hope to which the heathen cling, Now on earth with men abiding, Comes to Zion meekly riding; Alleluia! Alleluia! | | Lo! He comes, a Victim willing, All His Father’s Will fulfilling; He will, through His precious Blood, All things once again make good, Pain and shame of death sustaining, What was lost with joy regaining; Alleluia! Alleluia! | | In our stead Himself He offers, On th’ accursed Tree He suffers, That His Death’s sweet savour may Take our curse for aye away; Cross and curse for us enduring, Hope and heaven to us securing; Alleluia! Alleluia! | | Moses’ law no longer rules us, Christ’s free Spirit gently schools us; Ended now our captive thrall, He who God obeys in all, Through his Saviour’s Death and Merit, Now enjoys adoption’s spirit; Alleluia! Alleluia! | | Rent the temple curtain’s centre, Fearless each may strive to enter, Through the veil, the Holy Place, There to stand before His Face; He Who once came down from heaven, Fear from all our breasts hath driven; Alleluia! Alleluia! | | Hence thy King, O Zion, praising, Heart and voice to Him upraising, Shout with joy, for once thou art In His Reign to bear thy part. Come, thyself as offering bringing, Come, thou Bride, for ever singing, Alleluia! Alleluia! | |