The Cyber Hymnal ‎#13216

13216. Salvation Morning

1 What means this glorious radiance
Across Judea’s plain?
These white winged angels singing
In such exultant strain?

Refrain:
The King of glory cometh,
Earth’s broken hearts to bind,
And God’s salvation morning
Hath dawned for all mankind.

2 What means this wondrous story
The holy angels tell,
Of One who reigned in Heaven,
And now on earth would dwell? [Refrain]

3 Why bend these eastern sages
To one of lowly birth?
What means this heav’nly message
Of love and peace on earth? [Refrain]

4 Ye wand’rers in earth’s darkness,
On ocean deep and land,
Hail, hail the joyful tidings,
"The morning is at hand." [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: What means this glorious radiance
• Title: Salvation Morning
• Author: Mary E. Servoss
• Meter: 76.76 D
• Language: English
• Source: Holy Voices, by Isaiah Baltzell and Edmund Lorenz (Dayton, OH: W. J. Shuey 1883)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: BATANGAS
• Composer: George Coles Stebbins (1898)
• Meter: 76.76 D
• Key: G Major or modal
• Copyright: Public Domain