Hark the Glad Sound! Phillip Doddridge (1702-1751)

BRISTOL (C.M.) Thomas Ravenscroft's Psalmes (1621)

Hark the glad sound! the Sa-viour comes,
   The Sa-viour pro-mised long:
Let eve-ry heart pre-pare a throne,
   And eve-ry voice a song.

He comes, the pris-oners to re-lease
   In Sa-tan's bon-dage held;
The gates of brass be-fore Him burst,
   The ir-on fet-ters yield.

He comes, the bro-ken heart to bind,
   The bleed-ing soul to cure,
And with the trea-sures of His grace
   To bless the hum-ble poor.

Our glad ho-san-nas, Prince of Peace,
   Thy wel-come shall pro-claim;
And heaven's e-ter-nal arch-es ring
   With Thy be-lov-ed name.