11229 | The Cyber Hymnal#11230 | 11231 |
Text: | My Thoughts On Awful Subjects Roll |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | MANOAH |
Composer: | Giocchino Antonio Rossini |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 My thoughts on awful subjects roll,
Damnation and the dead;
What horrors seize the guilty soul
Upon a dying bed!
2 Lingering about these mortal shores,
She makes a long delay,
Till, like a flood, with rapid force
Death sweeps the wretch away.
3 Then swift and dreadful she descends
Down to the fiery coast,
Amongst abominable fiends,
Herself a frightful ghost.
4 There endless crowds of sinners lie,
And darkness makes their chains;
Tortured with keen despair they cry,
Yet wait for fiercer pains.
5 Not all their anguish and their blood
For their old guilt atones,
Nor the compassion of a God
Shall hearken to their groans.
6 Amazing grace! that kept my breath
Nor bid my soul remove,
Till I had learned my Savior’s death
And well insured His love.
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First Line: | My thoughts on awful subjects roll |
Title: | My Thoughts On Awful Subjects Roll |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-09, Book II |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: OLD MARTYRS from Scottish Psalter; THE WAITS' SONG, English traditional |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MANOAH |
Composer: | Giocchino Antonio Rossini (1851, arr.) |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | Collection of Church Music by Henry W. Greatorex, 1851 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | Midi |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer Score |