Stand We Prepared To See And Hear

This is the text of this hymn as it appears in Church Hymns (1871) where it is listed under General Hymns:

Stand we prepared to see and hear
The Lord from heaven descending;
The shout, the Archangel’s voice of cheer,
The captive’s fetters rending:
While the last trumpet’s earliest call
Shall wake the joyous song of all
Who love the Lord’s appearing.

The dead in Christ shall first arise,
From sweetest sleep awaking;
While living saints, with rapt surprise,
The wondrous change partaking,
Shall hear the Bridegroom’s coming feet,
And with their lamps go forth to meet
The Lord for whom they waited.

Far spent the night, the morn is nigh,
It is no time for sleeping;
A moment’s twinkling of an eye
May end the night of weeping;
Eternity of bliss begun,
For ever with the Bridegroom one.
When time shall be no longer!

Grant us, O Christ, this grace to win.
Thy ransomed flock implore Thee;
With oil-fed lamps to enter in,
And stand unblamed before Thee.
So may we in Thy triumph share,
Caught up to meet Thee in the air,
And come with Thee in glory. Amen.

Words: Jane E. Leeson, 1860.
Tune (Church Hymn): “Zoheleth” William H. Havergal, 1858.
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7.