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Second Advent

Dark brood the heavens over thee

  • No. 876
  • Metre L. M.
  • Words Anon.
  • 5 stanzas
  • Words only in the original

Words

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1

Dark brood the heavens over thee,Black clouds of gloom are gathering fast,In awful power thy God has come,Thy days of sin and mirth are past.

2

Dark brood the heavens over thee,Red flames of death are bursting round;Bright lightnings flash, loud thunders roar,How shakes the heaving, broken ground!

3

Dark brood the heavens over thee,Behold, the Judge of all appears;Unnumbered millions throng around,Raised from the buried dust of years.

4

Dark brood the heavens over thee;Sinner, behold thy dreadful doom!Destruction opens wide for theeThy blindly chosen, final home.

5

Yet stay,—the vision lingers yet;Why, sinner, O, why wilt thou die?Dark brood the heavens, but mercy waits;This hour to Christ, thy Saviour, fly.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «876» (large) in the left column of p. 294, below hymn 875, with the reference line «929, 932, 914.» in italic figures on the same line (= sung to the tunes of hymns 929, 932 or 914). Stanzas 1–4 in the left column, stanza 5 at the top of the right column; numbered «1»–«5» without periods (written «1.»–«5.» here), lines 2 and 4 of each stanza indented; «Anon.» in italics, right-aligned, after stanza 5. The first word «DARK» is set in capitals and small capitals (written «Dark» here). Stanza 2 line 3 is too long for the column and its last word runs over («loud thunders / roar,»); joined here as one verse line. Stanza 1 line 2 and stanza 2 line 4 are set with almost no word space («Black clouds of gloom are gathering fast,», «How shakes the heaving, broken ground!»); normal spaces here. The print sets a thin space before «;», «!» and «?» (e.g. «round ;», «ground !», «appears ;», «doom !», «die ?»); it is closed up here. A handwritten pen note of the exemplar's owner beside the number (read approximately «1869 - Hymnal 357») is not part of the print and is not transcribed (see uncertainties). Spelling («Saviour»), punctuation and capitals are the print's.

Source
The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
Where
Second Advent · No. 876 · printed page 294
Checked
lyrics verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-10-02