The Day Is Come

The day is come, the solemn day of doom

Author: Christopher Wordsworth
Tune: SONG 24
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1 The day is come, the solemn day of doom;
The Judge appears upon a shining cloud;
And all mankind is wakened from the tomb
By the archangel’s trumpet, clear and loud.
The dead come forth; and all, both small and great,
Are summoned to God’s awful judgment seat.

2 Ten thousand angels are around their Lord,
Forth issues from His throne a fiery flood;
And with the mighty mandate of His word
He separates the wicked from the good;
These on the right—those on the other hand—
Waiting their everlasting sentence stand.

3 Hide us, ye hills, ye mountains, on us fall!
With fear and piercing shrieks the guilty cry,
And to the caves and rocks for succor call,
Hide us, O hide us from His searching eye;
O save us from the fury of His ire,
From the undying worm and lake of fire!

4 But O what joys the saints of God await!
Bliss unalloyed, and sunshine without night;
Christ opens wide to them His palace gate,
And bids them drink of pleasures infinite;
God wipes all tears for ever from their eyes,
And gives to them the life that never dies.

5 Thou Christ, who came from Heav’n our wounds to cure,
And all the works of Satan to destroy,
O purify us, Lord, as Thou art pure,
That we may come to that unsullied joy,
And fashioned in Thy glorious image be,
And, by Thy grace divine, be like to Thee!

Author: Christopher Wordsworth

Christopher Wordsworth--nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth--was born in 1807. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high honours, in 1830; M.A. in 1833; D.D. in 1839. He was elected Fellow of his College in 1830, and public orator of the University in 1836; received Priest's Orders in 1835; head master of Harrow School in 1836; Canon of Westminster Abbey in 1844; Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1847-48; Vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks, in 1850; Archdeacon of Westminster, in 1865; Bishop of Lincoln, in 1868. His writings are numerous, and some of them very valuable. Most of his works are in prose. His "Holy Year; or, Hymns for Sundays, Holidays, and other occ… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: The day is come, the solemn day of doom
Title: The Day Is Come
Author: Christopher Wordsworth
Meter: 10.10.10. D
Source: The Holy Year (London: Rivingtons: 1862)
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

SONG 24

Orlando Gibbons (b. Oxford, England, 1583; d. Canterbury, England, 1625) composed SONG 24 as a setting for a paraphrase of Lamentations 1. The tune was number 24 (hence, the tune name) in his collection of hymn tunes composed for and published in George Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church (1…

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