Great God, What Do I See and Hear? Lyrics William B. Collyer, 1812
3 verses, meter 8, 7, 8, 7, 8, 8, 7, public domain, free to print and project.
The words
Verse 1. Great God, what do I see and hear?
The end of things created;
The Judge of mankind doth appear
On clouds of glory seated;
The trumpet sounds; the graves restore
The dead which they contained before:
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him.
Verse 2. The dead in Christ shall first arise
At the last trumpet’s sounding,
Caught up to meet Him in the skies;
With joy their Lord surrounding;
No gloomy fears their souls dismay;
His presence sheds eternal day
On those prepared to meet Him.
Verse 3. But sinners, filled with guilty fears,
Behold His wrath prevailing,
For they shall rise and find their tears
And sighs are unavailing;
The day of grace is past and gone;
Trembling they stand before the throne,
All unprepared to meet Him.
Words copied from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book (Abridged Edition) (1927). They were published in 1812, so they are in the public domain in the United States, and your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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