The Cyber Hymnal ‎#9452

9452. My Wakened Soul, Extend Thy Wings

1 My wakened soul, extend thy wings,
Beyond the verge of mortal things;
See this vain world in smoke decay,
And rocks and mountains melt away.

2 Behold the fiery deluge roll,
Through heaven’s wide arch, from pole to pole;
Pale sun, no more thy luster boast:
Tremble and fall, ye starry host.

3 This wreck of nature all around—
The angels’ shout, the trumpet’s sound,
Loud the descending Judge proclaim,
And echo His tremendous name.

4 Children of Adam, all appear
With reverence round His awful bar;
For, as His lips pronounce, ye go,
To endless bliss, or endless woe!

5 Lord, to my eyes this scene display
Frequent through each returning day;
And let Thy grace my soul prepare
To meet its full redemption there!

Text Information

• First Line: My wakened soul, extend thy wings
• Title: My Wakened Soul, Extend Thy Wings
• Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (Shropshire, England: Joshua Eddowes & John Cotton, 1755)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: MINAL
• Arranger: Conrad Kocher, 1786-1872
• Meter: LM
• Key: e minor
• Source: German chorale; Carmina Sacra (Boston: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, 1844)
• Copyright: Public Domain