Lichfield Cathedral Choir - "Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending"

A beautiful hymn for these last days of Advent.  

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Lichfield Cathedral Choir - Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending

The choir of Lichfield Cathedral sings the lovely advent hymn "Lo! He comes with clouds descending". Words by Charles Wesley rewritten from the original text by John Cennick . Note the beautiful descant by the choristers during the last verse. All pictures are of Lichfield Cathedral.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favoured sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Christ appears on earth to reign

Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.

Those dear tokens of His passion
Still His dazzling body bears;
Cause of endless exultation
To His ransomed worshipers;
With what rapture, with what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!

Yea, amen; let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory;
Claim the kingdoms for thine own:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.

Lichfield Cathedral Choir - "Nova Nova"