12643 | The Cyber Hymnal#12644 | 12645 |
Text: | O Hark Unto The Sounding Bell |
Author: | Paul B. Henkel |
Tune: | IRAE |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896 |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 O hark unto the sounding bell,
What doth each stroke of tolling tell?
’Tis news to each attentive ear,
Some one is fitted for the bier.
2 Since death is licensed here to rage
Without respect to any age;
The hoary head, and youth in bloom,
Depart to their eternal home.
3 Death with an uncontrollèd force,
Will take his way and have his course;
Infectious air and pestilence
Are not repulsed by man’s defense.
4 They who had thought the world their own
Are with the meanest class cut down;
Both king and princes have to die.
And lay their pow’rs and honors by.
5 This is our just reward indeed,
What can we say, what can we plead?
Were we not warned, and warned again?
But all we heard, we heard in vain.
6 But now we feel, we learn to fear,
God’s threatened punishments are here:
What can we do, but plead and pray,
That God may turn His wrath away?
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O hark unto the sounding bell |
Title: | O Hark Unto The Sounding Bell |
Author: | Paul B. Henkel |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Church Hymn Book (New Market, VA: Solomon Henkel, 1816) |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: ISCAH by Lowell Mason, KANSAS CITY by William J. Kirkpatrick, LEFFINGWELL by Thoro Harris; "On a fast-day in time of the plague, or other ravages of death." Note: The 1816 edition of this hymnal does not name the author. Henkel’s son, Ambrose Henkel, identifies his father as the author by a double dagger symbol (‡) in the 1838 edition, page 439. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRAE |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896 |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | c minor or modal |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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