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Millennial Harp 8

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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 smi-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) · 68% 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 smi-ling, trumpets/˘/˘//˘/˘/˘11A

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.