Think, O My Soul, The Dreadful Day

DESCRIPTION: "Think, O my soul, the (dreadful/solemn) day When this incensed God Shall rend the skies and burn the seas, And fling his wrath abroad." Perhaps continued "Before the wise all-knowing God I quickly must be brought" to judgment
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1820 (MidwestFolklore)
KEYWORDS: religious death | judgment
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, Mary O. Eddy, "Twenty Folk Hymns," Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 1953), p. 36, "Dunlap's Creek, C.M." (1 excerpt, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf, "Dunlap's Creek" (tune?)
cf. "Dunlap Creek" (tune?)
NOTES [106 words]: The "Dunlap's Creek" version of this printed in MidwestFolklore, with a tune credited to S. McFarland and dated by Eddy to 1820, doesn't look much like the other versions at hymnary.org but is identical to that in the shape note hymnal The Christian's Harp, which seems to have been Eddy's source. Both versions are strongly hellfire-and-brimstone; neither text seems to be attributed. Nor do I find any evidence of the piece in tradition.
What I assume is a secular version of this tune appears in the Index as "Dunlap Creek"; a third version, with words by Isaac Watts, is filed as "Dunlap's Creek" and seems to be Roud #18615. - RBW
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