9452 | The Cyber Hymnal#9453 | 9454 |
Text: | Methinks The Last Great Day Is Come |
Author: | John Needham |
Tune: | BRYNTEG |
Composer: | John Ambrose Lloyd, 1815-1874 |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Methinks the last great day is come,
I seem to hear the trumpet sound
Which shakes the earth, rends every tomb,
And wakes the prisoners under ground.
2 The mighty deep gives up her trust,
Awed by the Judge’s high command,
The small and great now quit their dust,
And round the dread tribunal stand.
3 In vain the wicked strive to shun
The Judge’s quick and piercing eye;
In vain to hills and mountains run,
And to the rocks for shelter cry.
4 This bar impartial will not know
Nor birth, nor rank, nor royal state;
Nor kings are high, nor beggars low,
The good are here, the only great.
5 Behold the awful books displayed,
Big with th’important fates of men,
Each deed and word now public made,
As wrote by Heaven’s unerring pen.
6 To every work the books assign
The joyous or the sad reward:
Sinners in vain lament and pine;
No pleas the Judge will here regard.
7 Lord, when these awful leaves unfold,
May life’s fair book my works approve:
There may I read my name enrolled,
And triumph in redeeming love.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Methinks the last great day is come |
Title: | Methinks The Last Great Day Is Come |
Author: | John Needham |
Language: | English |
Source: | Hymns Devotional and Moral on Various Subjects (Bristol, England: S. Farley, 1768) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tune: EFFINGHAM in "The Sacred Harp or Eclectic Harmony" edited by Lowell Mason and Timothy B. Mason, 1859 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BRYNTEG |
Composer: | John Ambrose Lloyd, 1815-1874 |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | e minor |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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