Come, Sing with Holy Gladness

Come

sing with ho­ly glad­ness

High al­le­lu­ias sing

Uplift your loud ho­san­nas

To Je­sus

Lord and king;

Sing

boys in joy­ful chor­us

Your hymn of praise to­day

And sing

ye gen­tle maid­ens

Your sweet re­spons­ive lay.

’Tis good for boys and maid­ens

Sweet hymns to Christ to sing

’Tis meet that children’s voices

Should praise the child­ren’s king:

For Je­sus is sal­va­tion

And glo­ry

grace and rest;

To babe and boy and maid­en

The one Re­deem­er blest.

O boys

be strong in Je­sus

To toil for him is gain

And Je­sus wrought with Jo­seph

With chi­sel

saw and plane;

O maid­ens

live for Je­sus

Who was a maid­en’s son;

Be pa­tient

pure and gen­tle

And per­fect grace be­gun.

Soon in the gold­en ci­ty

The boys and girls shall play

And through the daz­zling man­sions

Rejoice in end­less day;

O Christ

pre­pare Thy child­ren

With that tri­umph­ant throng

To pass the burn­ished por­tals

And sing th’eter­nal song.