That Day of Wrath

Thomas of Celano, 13th Century (Dies Irae); translated from Latin to English by Walter Scott, 1805. This translation forms the concluding stanzas of the sixth canto of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, titled A Hymn for the Dead.

St. Cross, John B. Dykes, in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861 (MIDI, NWC, PDF).

Abbotsford, Catholische Geistliche Gesänge (Andernach, Germany: 1608) (MIDI, NWC, PDF)
Adwell, Lowell Mason, Carmina Sacra (Boston, Massachusetts: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, 1844) (MIDI, NWC, PDF)
Irae, Joseph Barnby, (1838-1896) (MIDI, NWC, PDF)
Llef, Griffith H. Jones, 1890 (MIDI, NWC, PDF)
Preserve Us, Lord, medieval melody (MIDI, NWC, PDF)
Zephyr, William B. Bradbury, 1844 (MIDI, NWC, PDF)

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?

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.

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.

Last Day of Pompeii
Karl P. Bryulov (1799-1852)