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Text:That Day of wrath, that dreadful Day
Author:Sir Walter Scott
Tune:ST. CROSS

566. That Day of wrath, that dreadful Day

1 That Day of wrath, that dreadful Day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
What power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful Day?

2 When, shrivelling like a parchéd scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll;
When louder yet, and yet more dread,
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead:

3 Lord! on that Day, that wrathful Day,
When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be Thou the trembling sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away.

Text Information
First Line: That Day of wrath, that dreadful Day
Author: Sir Walter Scott (1805, a.)
Meter: L. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1890
Topic: Death and Eternity: Judgment; Advent, Second Sunday; Twenty Sixth Sunday after Trinity
Notes: Now Public Domain. Alternate tune: #316 or #356
Tune Information
Name: ST. CROSS
Meter: L. M.
Key: d minor
Notes: Now Public Domain. Composer from index: Rev. J. B. Dykes, 1861



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