Text:That Day of Wrath
Author:Thomas of Celano
Translator (from Latin):Walter Scott
Tune:ST. CROSS
Composer:John Bacchus Dykes
Media:MIDI file

6589. That Day of Wrath

1. That day of wrath, that dreadful day,
[or, The day of wrath…]
When Heav’n and earth shall pass away!
What pow’r shall be the sinner’s stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?

2. When, shriveling like a parchèd scroll,
The flaming heav’ns together roll;
When louder yet, and yet more dread;
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead.

3. O on that day, that wrathful day
When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be Thou the trembling sinner’s stay,
Though Heav’n and earth shall pass away.

Text Information
First Line: That day of wrath, that dreadful day
Title: That Day of Wrath
Latin Title: Dies Irae
Author: Thomas of Celano (13th Century)
Translator (from Latin): Walter Scott (1805)
Language: English
Source: This translation forms the concluding stanzas of the sixth canto of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," titled "A Hymn for the Dead."
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tunes: ABBOTSFORD, Catholische Geistliche Gesänge (Andernach, Germany: 1608); ADWELL, Lowell Mason, Carmina Sacra (Boston, Massachusetts: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, 1844); IRAE, Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896; LLEF, Griffith H. Jones, 1890; PRESERVE US, LORD, medieval melody; ZEPHYR, William B. Bradbury, 1844
Tune Information
Name: ST. CROSS
Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1861)
Incipit: 33451 76555 67354
Key: d minor
Source: Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern, 1861
Copyright: Public Domain



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