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The ribs and
terrors in the whale
Arched over me a dismal gloom,
While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by,
And lift me
deepening down to doom.
I saw the opening maw of
hell,
With endless pains and sorrows there;
Which
none but they that feel can tell -
Oh, I was
plunging to despair.
In black distress, I called
my God,
When I could scarce believe him mine,
He
bowed his ear to my complaints -
No more the whale
did me confine.
With speed he flew to my relief,
As on a radiant dolphin borne;
Awful, yet bright, as
lightning shone
The face of my Deliverer God.
My song for ever shall record
That terrible, that
joyful hour;
I give the glory to my God,
His all
the mercy and the power.
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