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Text:O what terror in thy forethought
Author:Peter Damian, d. 1072
Translator:John Mason Neale
Tune:ST. PETER'S

543. O what terror in thy forethought

1 O what terror in thy forethought,
Ending scene of mortal life!
Heart is sickened, reins are loosened,
Thrills each nerve, with terror rife,
When the anxious heart depicteth
All the anguish of the strife!

2 Christ, unconquered King of glory!
Thou my wretched soul relieve
In that last extremest terror
When the body she must leave:
Let the Accuser of the brethren
O'er me then no power receive!

3 Let the Prince of darkness vanish,
And Gehenna's legions fly!
Shepherd, Thou Thy sheep, thus ransomed,
To Thy country lead on high,
Where for ever in fruition
I may see Thee eye to eye!

Text Information
First Line: O what terror in thy forethought
Latin Title: Gravi me terrore pulsas
Author: Peter Damian, d. 1072
Translator: John Mason Neale (1851)
Meter: 8, 7.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1890
Topic: Death and Eternity: Preparation for Death; Advent, Second Sunday; Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity (2 more...)
Notes: Now Public Domain. Alternate tune: #23
Tune Information
Name: ST. PETER'S
Meter: 8, 7.
Key: g minor
Notes: Now Public Domain. Source from index: Ancient Church



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