8874 | The Cyber Hymnal#8875 | 8876 |
Text: | When The Fierce North Wind |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | HERZLIEBSTER JESU |
Composer: | Johann Crüger |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 When the fierce north wind with his airy forces
Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury;
And flame of lightning, with a storm of hail comes
Rushing amain down.
2 How the poor sailors stand amazed and tremble!
While the hoarse thunder, like a bloody trumpet,
Roars a loud onset to the gaping water
Quick to devour them.
3 Such shall the noise be, and the wild disorder,
If things eternal may be like these earthly;
Such the dire terror when the great archangel
Shakes all creation.
4 Tears the strong pillars of the vault of Heaven,
Breaks up old marble, the repose of princes;
See the graves open, and the bones arising,
Flames all around them!
5 Hark, the shrill outcries of the guilty wretches!
Lively bright horror, and amazing anguish;
Stare through their eyelids, while the living worm lies
Gnawing within them.
6 Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart strings,
And the smart twinges, when their eye beholds the
Lofty Judge frowning, and a flood of vengeance
Rolling afore Him.
7 Hopeless immortals! how they scream and shiver
While devils push them to the pit wide yawning,
Hideous and gloomy, to receive them headlong
Down to the center.
8 Stop here, my fancy: all away, ye horrid
Doleful ideas, come, now arise to Jesus;
How he sits Godlike! And the saints around Him
Throned, yet adoring!
9 O may I sit there when He comes triumphant,
Dooming the nations! Then ascend to glory,
While our hosannas all along the passage
Shout the Redeemer.
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First Line: | When the fierce north wind with his airy forces |
Title: | When The Fierce North Wind |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Meter: | 11.11.11.5 |
Language: | English |
Source: | Horae Lyricae Book I, 1706, alt. |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: FLEMMING by Friedrich F. Flemming; ISTE CONFESSOR from Poitiers Antiphoner |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HERZLIEBSTER JESU |
Composer: | Johann Crüger (1640) |
Meter: | 11.11.11.5 |
Key: | g minor |
Source: | Newes vollkömliches Gesangbuch Augsburgisher Confession (Berlin: 1640) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | MIDI |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer Score |