Dies Irae
Requiem for Humanity
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LYRICS
Dies iræ! Dies illa
!
Solvet sæclum in favilla:
Teste David cum Sibylla!
Quantus tremor est futurus,
Quando judex est venturus,
Cuncta stricte discussurus!
Tuba, mirum spargens sonum
Per sepulchra regionum,
Coget omnes ante thronum.
Mors stupebit, et natura,
Cum resurgit creatura,
judicanti responsura.
Rex tremendæ majestatis,
Qui salvandos salvas gratis,
Salva me, fons pietatis.
Confutatis maledictis,
Flammus acribus addictis:
Voca me benedictis.
Lacrimosa dies illa,
Qua resurget ex favilla
Judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce, Deus.
Day of wrath! O day of mourning!
See fulfilled the prophets' warning,
Heaven and earth in ashes burning!
Oh, what fear man's bosom rendeth,
When from heaven the Judge descendeth,
On whose sentence all dependeth!
Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth;
Through earth's sepulchers it ringeth;
All before the throne it bringeth.
Death is struck, and nature quaking,
All creation is awaking, to its
Judge an answer making.
King of Majesty tremendous,
Who dost free salvation send us,
Fount of pity, then befriend us!
While the wicked are confounded,
Doomed to flames of woe unbounded
Call me with thy saints surrounded.
Ah! that day of tears and mourning!
From the dust of earth returning
Man for judgment must prepare him;
Spare, O God, in mercy spare him.
Heaven and earth in ashes burning!
Oh, what fear man's bosom rendeth,
When from heaven the Judge descendeth,
On whose sentence all dependeth!
Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth;
Through earth's sepulchers it ringeth;
All before the throne it bringeth.
Death is struck, and nature quaking,
All creation is awaking, to its
Judge an answer making.
King of Majesty tremendous,
Who dost free salvation send us,
Fount of pity, then befriend us!
While the wicked are confounded,
Doomed to flames of woe unbounded
Call me with thy saints surrounded.
Ah! that day of tears and mourning!
From the dust of earth returning
Man for judgment must prepare him;
Spare, O God, in mercy spare him.