Hymns and Tunes 1876 274
Come, Lord, and tarry not
1Come, Lord, and tarry not; Bring the long-looked-for day; Oh! why these years of waiting here, These ages of delay?
2Come, for creation groans, Impatient of thy stay; Worn out with these long years of ill, These ages of delay.
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The verse
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- 27
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- trochaic (DUM-da) · 39% of beats fit
- Rhyme
- A
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Verse 1
Come, Lord, and tarry not; Bring the long-looked-for day; Oh! why these years of waiting here, These ages of delay?//˘/˘˘/˘????/˘/˘/˘/˘/˘/˘˘˘/27A
Verse 2
Come, for creation groans, Impatient of thy stay; Worn out with these long years of ill, These ages of delay./˘˘/˘///˘˘////˘˘//˘/˘/˘˘˘/26A
Counted by machine from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. It cannot hear emphasis or a poet’s licence, so treat it as a place to start reading, not the last word.