Millennial Harp 13
Advent
1Don't you see my Je-sus coming, Don't you
2Don't you see the saints as-cend-ing, Hear them
3see in yonder cloud! With ten thousand angels
4shouting through the air! Jesus ami-ling, trumpets
5round him, With ten thousand an-gels round him,
6sounding, Je-sus smi-ling, trumpets sound-ing
- Also sung to
- Don't You See My Jesus Coming (SDA Hymnal #454)
The verse
- Meter
- 10
- Foot
- trochaic (DUM-da) · 77% of beats fit
- Rhyme
- A
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/ stressed · ˘ unstressed · ? not in the dictionary
Verse 1
Don't you see my Je-sus coming, Don't you/˘/˘/˘/˘/˘10A
Verse 2
Don't you see the saints as-cend-ing, Hear them/˘/˘/˘/˘/˘10A
Verse 3
see in yonder cloud! With ten thousand angels/˘/˘/˘//˘/˘11A
Verse 4
shouting through the air! Jesus ami-ling, trumpets/˘/˘//˘???/˘12A
Verse 5
round him, With ten thousand an-gels round him,/˘˘//˘/˘/˘10A
Verse 6
sounding, Je-sus smi-ling, trumpets sound-ing/˘/˘/˘/˘/˘10A
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.