'He is coming! he is coming!' Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

-Aytoun,William Edmonstoune
  Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Execution of Montrose', stanza14.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the L, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The L is thy keeper: the L is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moonby night.The L shall preservetheefromallevil: he shall preserve thy soul. The L shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDORDORDPsalms121:1^8.

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The  Journey of the Magi'.

Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

-Pope, Alexander
  Odyssey, bk.15, l.83.