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Contains JSON data on the Trinity Hymnal
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{
"title": "The King shall come when morning dawns",
"author": "",
"tune": "St. Stephen",
"number": "236",
"lyrics": "The King shall come when morning dawns,\nAnd light triumphant breaks;\nWhen beauty gilds the eastern hills,\nAnd life to joy awakes.\n\nNot as of old a little child\nTo bear and fight and die,\nBut crowned with glory like the sun\nThat lights the morning sky.\n\nO brighter than the rising morn\nWhen he, victorious rose,\nAnd left the lonesome place of death\nDespite the rage of foes;\n\nO brighter than that glorious morn\nShall this fair morning be,\nWhen Christ, our King, in beauty comes,\nAnd we his face shall see.\n\nThe King shall come when morning dawns,\nAnd earth's dark night is past:\nO haste the rising of that morn,\nThe day that aye shall last;\n\nAnd let the endless bliss begin\nBy weary saints foretold,\nWhen right shall triumph over wrong,\nAnd truth shall be extolled.\n\nThe King shall come when morning dawns,\nAnd light and beauty brings:\nHail Christ the Lord! thy people pray,\nCome quickly, King of kings.",
"first_line": "The King shall come when morning dawns,"
}