“FIERCE RAGED THE TEMPEST ON THE DEEP.”
This fine lyric, based on the incident in the storm on the Sea of Galilee, is the work of the same writer and owes its tune “St. Aelred” to the same composer.
The melody has an impressive rallentando of dotted semibreves to the refrain, “Peace, be still,” after the more rapid notes of the three-line stanzas.
The wild winds hushed, the angry deep
Sank like a little child to sleep,
The sullen waters ceased to leap.
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So when our life is clouded o'er
And storm-winds drift us from the shore
Say, lest we sink to rise no more,
“Peace! be still.”