Trust
The Winds and Billows Loudly Roar
- Words:
- Christopher Wordsworth, 1865.
- Music:
- Music and
- Setting:
- 'Consolation' or 'Morning Song' John Wyeth, 1813.
- Metre:
- 8 6 8 6
- 1The winds and billows loudly roarWe flounder in the deepOur bark is frail, far off the shore,And Jesus is asleep.
- 2"Save us, we perish, Lord," they cry;To Thee we fly for aid;"Awake! awake!" they say; but whySo faithless and afraid?
- 3His head is pillow'd on the stern,As Man He is asleep;As God He all things does discern,And endless vigils keep.
- 4He does the elements control;By His Almighty Will.The angry waves their surges roll;And at His Word are still.
- 5O ye, who in the Church's BarkO'er life's rough ocean sail,When all around is drear and dark,and human efforts fail,
- 6Touch not, with rude, irreverent hands,And coward faithlessness,Him, who the winds and waves commands;But wait in quietness.
- 7O never, never when distressed,To doubtful means resort;Christ's Bark, when on the billow's crest,Is safe as in the port.
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In the hymnals
- The tune, Consolation, is in 1 hymnal. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.