UK Bible Students Website. Poem for the Day | ||||||||
ASCEND. BELOVED |
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ASCEND,
beloved, to His joy;
Thy festal day hath come;
Tonight the Lamb doth feast His own,
Tonight He with His Bride sits down,
Tonight
puts on the spousal crown,
In the great upper room.
Ascend,
beloved, to thy Love;
This is the day of days;
Tonight the bridal song is sung.
Tonight ten thousand harps are strung.
In
sympathy with heart and tongue,
Unto the Lamb’s high praise.
The festal lamps are lighting now,
In
the great marriage hail;
By angel bands the board is spread,
By angel hands the sacred bread
Is
on the golden table laid;
The King His own doth call
Long, long deferred, now comes at last,
The
Lamb’s glad wedding day;
The
guests are gathering at the feast,
The
seats in heavenly order placed.
The
royal throne above the rest—
How bright the whole array!
Sorrow
and sighing are no more;
The weeping hours are
past;
Tonight
the waiting will be done,
Tonight the wedding robe is
on;
The glory and the joy begun,
The hour hath come at last.
Within
the hail is heav’nly light;
Around, above, is
love;
We
enter to go out no more;
We
raise the song unsung before;
We
doll the sackcloth that we wore,
For all is joy and love.
Ascend,
beloved, share His life;
Our
days of death are o’er;
Mortality
hath done its worst,
The
fetters of the tomb are burst,
The
last hath now become the first,
Forever, evermore.
Ascend,
beloved, to the feast,
Make
haste, the day hath come;
Thrice
blest are they the Lamb doth call
To
share the heavenly festival
In the new Salem’s palace
ball,
Our everlasting home.
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