When through the torn sail (Gustav Stolpe)
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- Editor: Noel Stoutenburg (submitted 2006-04-06). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 25 kB Copyright: Public Domain
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Title: When through the torn sail
Composer: Gustav Stolpe
Lyricist: Reginald Heber
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella, optional keyboard
Published: The Hymnal. Augustana Book Concern. Rock Island, IL. 1925
Description: Based on tune "Dig, Jesus, min dyreste". Since the lines of this tune are in Amphibrachic quadrameter, Heber's text is one of the few that will fit.
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Original text and translations
English text
When through the torn sail the wild tempest is raging,
When o’er the dark wave the red lightning is gleaming,
Nor hope lends a ray the poor seaman to cherish,
We fly to our Maker, “Save, Lord, or we perish.”
O Jesus, once rocked on the breast of the billow,
Aroused by the shriek of despair from Thy pillow,
Now seated in glory, the mariner cherish,
Who cries in his anguish, “Save, Lord, or we perish.”
And O! when the whirlwind of passion is raging,
When sin in our hearts his wild warfare is waging,
Then send down Thy grace Thy redeemed to cherish
Rebuke the destroyer; “Save, Lord, or we perish.”