Behold, the Bridegroom Cometh

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Our lamps are trimmed and burning

Author: George F. Root
Tune: [Our lamps are trimmed and burning]
Published in 17 hymnals

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1 Our lamps are trimm'd and burning,
Our robes are white and clean,
We’ve tarried for the Bridegroom,
O may we enter in?
We know we’ve nothing worthy
That we can call our own--
The light, the oil, the robes we wear,
Are all from Him alone.

Chorus:
Behold, the Bridegroom cometh!
And all may enter in,
Whose lamps are trimm'd and burning,
Whose robes are white and clean.

2 Go forth, go forth to meet Him,
The way is open now,
All lighted with the glory
That’s streaming from His brow.
Accept the invitation
Beyond deserving kind;
Make no delay, but take your lamps,
And joy eternal find. [Chorus]

3 We see the marriage splendor
Within the open door;
We know that those who enter
Are blest for evermore.
We see He is more lovely
Than all the sons of men,
But still we know the door once shut,
Will never ope again. [Chorus]

Source: Minnetonka Songs: for Sabbath Schools, compiled especially for the Minnetonka Sabbath-School Assembly #27

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Author: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Our lamps are trimmed and burning
Title:	Behold, the Bridegroom Cometh
Author:	George F. Root
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Behold, the Bridegroom cometh
Copyright:	Public Domain