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Text:Day of Pentecost
Author:John Keble
Tune:ROGET
Composer:J. Barnby

237. Day of Pentecost

1 When God, of old, came down from heaven,
In power and wrath he came;
Before his feet the clouds were riven,
Half darkness and half flame.

2 But when he came the second time,
He came in power and love;
Softer than gales at morning prime,
Hovered his holy Dove.

3 The fires that rushed on Sinai down
In sudden torrents dread,
Now gently light a glorious crown
On every sainted head.

4 Like arrows went those lightnings forth,
Winged with the sinner's doom;
But these, like tongues, o'er all the earth
Proclaiming life to come.

Text Information
First Line: When God, of old, came down from heaven
Title: Day of Pentecost
Author: John Keble
Language: English
Publication Date: 1888
Scripture:
Topic: The Holy Spirit
Tune Information
Name: ROGET
Composer: J. Barnby
Meter: C. M.
Incipit: 51171 66532 21767
Key: C Major



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