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Text:Soon Shall The Trumpet Spread
Author:Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Tune:WIRKSWORTH
Media:MIDI file

16112. Soon Shall The Trumpet Spread

1 Soon shall the trum­pet spread
Its ani­mat­ing sound—
Awake, arise, ye nu­mer­ous dead,
Ye na­tions un­der­ground.

2 The so­lemn call’s ob­eyed,
In won­drous crowds they come,
Reluctantly, and all di­smayed,
To hear their fi­nal doom.

3 Be that im­port­ant day
Impressed up­on my mind,
Let me with con­stant fer­vor pray,
That I may mer­cy find.

4 Oh let my heart re­joice,
To find the Judge my friend;
His love shall then at­tune my voice,
When time and na­ture end.

Text Information
First Line: Soon shall the trum­pet spread
Title: Soon Shall The Trumpet Spread
Author: Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Meter: SM
Language: English
Source: Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818)
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: SOUTHWELL by William Damon, ST. BRIDE by Samuel Howard, ST. MICHAEL by Louis Bourgeois
Tune Information
Name: WIRKSWORTH
Meter: SM
Key: f minor
Source: Psalmody by John Chetham, 1718
Copyright: Public Domain



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