1. See, the Lord as- cends in tri- umph; see the King in ro- yal state, Ri- ding on the clouds, His char- iot, To His heav'n- ly pal- ace gate. Hark! the choirs of an- gel voi- ces Joy- ful al- le- lu- ias sing, And the por- tals high are lift- ed To re- ceive their heav'n- ly King. Ho- ly Ghost, Il- lum- in- a- tor, shed Thy beams up- on our eyes, Help us to look up with Ste- phen, and to see be- yond the skies, Where the Son of Man in glo- ry Stand- ing is at God's right hand, Beck- 'ning on His mar- tyr ar- my, suc- cor- ing His faith- ful band.
2. Who is this that comes in glo- ry, with the trump of ju- bi- lee? Lord of bat- tles, God of arm- ies, He has gained the vic- tor- y. He Who on the cross did suf- fer, He who from the grave a- rose, He has van- quished sin and Sa- tan, He by death has spoiled His foes. See Him, Who is gone be- fore us, Heav'n- ly man- sions to pre- pare, See Him, who is ev- er plead- ing For us with pre- vail- ing prayer, See Him, who with sound of trum- pet, and with His an- gel- ic train, Sum- mon- ing the world to judg- ment, on the clouds will come a- gain.
3. While He lifts His hands in bless- ing, He is part- ed from His friends While their ea- ger eyes be- hold Him, He up- on the cloud as- cends; He Who walked with God and pleased Him, preach- ing truth and doom to come, He, our E- noch, is trans- la- ted to His ev- er- last- ing home. Raise us up from earth to Hea- ven, give us wings of faith and love, Gales of ho- ly as- pir- a- tions waft- ing us to realms a- bove; That, with hearts and minds up- lift- ed, we with Christ our Lord may dwell, Where He sits en- throned in glo- ry in His heav'n- ly Cit- a- del.
4. Now our heav'n- ly Aa- ron en- ters, with His blood, with- in the veil; Josh- ua now is come to Ca- naan, and the kings be- fore Him quail; Now He plants the tribes of Is- rael in their pro- mised rest- ing place; Now our great El- i- jah of- fers dou- ble por- tion of His grace. So at last, when He ap- pear- eth, we from out our graves may spring, With our youth re- newed like eag- les, flock- ing round our Heav'n- ly King. Caught up on the clouds of Hea- ven, and may meet Him in the air, Rise to realms where He is reign- ing, and may reign for ev- er there.
5. He has raised our hu- man na- ture in the clouds to God's right hand; There we sit in heav'n- ly pla- ces, there with Him in glo- ry stand: Je- sus reigns, a- dored by an- gels; man with God is on the throne; Might- y Lord, in Thine as- cen- sion we by faith be- hold our own. Glo- ry be to God the Fa- ther, Glo- ry be to God the Son, Dy- ing, ris'n, as- cend- ing for us, who the heav'n- ly realm has won; Glo- ry to the Ho- ly Spir- it, To One God in Per- sons Three; Glo- ry both in earth and Hea- ven, glo- ry, end- less glo- ry, be.