Verse 1
When shall we see the day
That summons us away
To the realms of light and love,
To the beatific place,
To the marriage feast above
To the sight of Jesus’s face?
Verse 2
For this alone we pine,
To see the face divine,
Him who veil’d his majesty,
To restore our paradice,
Stoop’d to earth to death for me,
Me to mount above the skies.
Verse 3
Jesu, descend again
With all thy heavenly train,
Our eternal life appear
With thy robes of glory on,
Manifest thy kingdom here,
Take us up into thy throne.