The Lord is King ’till that great day,
When all his foes are slain:
When heaven and earth are past away,
He shall forever reign:
And we shall by his side sit down,
His praises to repeat,
Or cast our crowns before the throne,
And wonder at his feet.
The Lord is king till that great day
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord shall reign forever, and ever.”—[Exod.] xv. 18. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 47.
Publishing: Public Domain