’Tis almost time for the Lord to come,
I hear the people say;
The stars of heaven are growing dim,
It must be the breaking of the day.

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O it must be the breaking of the day!
O it must be the breaking of the day!
The night is almost gone,
The day is coming on;
O it must be the breaking of the day!

The signs foretold in the sun and moon,
In earth and sea and sky,
Aloud pro­claim to all mankind,
The coming of the Mas­ter draweth nigh.

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It must be time for the waiting church
To cast her pride away,
With girded loins and burning lamps,
To look for the breaking of the day.

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Go quickly out in the streets and lanes
And in the broad highway,
And call the maimed, the halt, and blind,
To be rea­dy for the breaking of the day.

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