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<h2>THY KINGDOM COME, ON BENDED KNEE</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done.” Luke 11:2</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_h_o_hosmer_fl.jpg" alt="Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="110" height="158"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_o_hosmer_fl.html" target="_blank">Fredrick Lucian Hosmer</a>, 1891; Hosmer wrote this hymn for the commencement ceremony at Meadville Theological School, Meadville, Pennsylvania. It first appeared in <em>The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems</em>, second series (Boston, Massachusetts: 1894).</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Irish,” melody from <em>A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Poems</em> (Dublin, Ireland: 1749) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_i_irish.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Richmond (Haweis),” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_a_haweis_t.html" target="_blank">Thomas Haweis</a>, 1792 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_r_richmonh.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Thy kingdom come! on bended knee<br>
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The passing ages pray;<br>
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And faithful souls have yearned to see<br>
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On earth that kingdom’s day.</p>
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<p>But the slow watches of the night<br>
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Not less to God belong;<br>
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And for the everlasting right<br>
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The silent stars are strong.</p>
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<p>And lo, already on the hills<br>
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The flags of dawn appear;<br>
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Gird up your loins, ye prophet souls,<br>
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Proclaim the day is near.</p>
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<p>The day in whose clear shining light<br>
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All wrong shall stand revealed,<br>
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When justice shall be throned in might,<br>
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And every hurt be healed.</p>
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<p>When knowledge, hand in hand with peace,<br>
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Shall walk the earth abroad;<br>
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The day of perfect righteousness,<br>
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The promised day of God.</p>
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