Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand

This hymn was composed by Henry Alford (1867) and Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley (1867). "This all saints hymn...is a special favorite for Moravian funeral services" (Albert Frank, Companion to the Moravian Book of Worship, p. 73).

1. Ten thousand times ten thousand in sparkling raiment bright, the armies of the ransomed saints throng up the steeps of light!

'Tis finished, all is finished, their fight with death and sin. Fling open wide the golden gates, and let the victors in!

2. What rush of hallelujas fills all the earth and sky! What ringing of a thousand harps be-speaks the triumph nigh!

O day, for which creation and all its tribes were made! O Joy, for all its former woes a thousand-fold repaid!

3. O then what raptured greetings on Canaan's happy shore; what knitting severed friendships up, where partings are no more!

Then eyes with joy shall sparkle that brimmed with tears of late, no orphans left without a home, nor mourners desolate.

4. Bring near your great salvation, O Lamb for sinners slain; fill up the roll of your elect, then take your pow'r, and reign!

Appear, Desire of nations, your exiles long for home; show in the heav'n your promised sign; then, Prince and Savior, come.