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|Author=[[Authors:Martin Luther | Martin Luther]] (German)<br />[[Authors:John A. Messenger | John A. Messenger]], 1843 (English) | |Author=[[Authors:Martin Luther | Martin Luther]] (German)<br />[[Authors:John A. Messenger | John A. Messenger]], 1843 (English) | ||
|Composer=[[Composers:Maria C. Tiddeman | Maria C. Tiddeman]], 1875 | |Composer=[[Composers:Maria C. Tiddeman | Maria C. Tiddeman]], 1875 | ||
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| Title | Flung to the heedless winds |
| Author | Martin Luther (German) John A. Messenger, 1843 (English) |
| Composer | Maria C. Tiddeman, 1875 |
| Published | 1843 |
| Orig. Key | D |
| Orig. Language | German |
| Meter | 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 |
| Melody | IBStone |
| 1st Line | German: Ein neues Lied wir heben an English: Flung to the heedless winds |
| Scriptures | Rev 17:6 |
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Summary
"Flung to the Heedless Winds" was written by Martin Luther on June 30, 1523 to commemorate the martyrdom of two young Belgian Augustinian monks.[1]
Back Story
On the following day, July 1, 1523, the infant Reformation saw burned at the stake in the Brussels market place both Heinrich Voes and Johann Esch. Since wandering minstrels and their ballads served as the mass media of the day, Luther wrote this first hymn of the Reformation as a ballad recounting the martyrdom of these witnesses. First appearing in 1523 in broadsheet for, it, along with Luther’s tune, was published in Johann Walter’s 1524 Wittenberg hymnal.[1]
Esch and Voes were the very first martyrs of the Reformation. When Martin Luther heard of their deaths, he responded by writing his very first hymn, Ein neues Lied wir heben an (Now Shall a New Song Be Begun, aka With Help of God I Fain Would Tell), which appears in The Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary (with an unrelated nineteenth-century text) as Flung To the Heedless Winds.
Lyrics
- Flung to the heedless winds,
Or on the waters cast,
The martyrs’ ashes, watched,
Shall gathered be at last. -
And from that scattered dust,
Around us and abroad,
Shall spring a plenteous seed,
Of witnesses for God. -
The Father hath received,
Their latest living breath,
And vain is Satan’s boast,
Of victory in their death. -
Still, still, though dead, they speak,
And, trumpet tongued, proclaim,
To many a wakening land,
The one availing Name.
Hymnals
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary #556
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Julian, John, ed., A Dictionary of Hymnology: Setting forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of all Ages and Nations<cite>, Second revised edition, 2 vols., n.p., 1907, reprint, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957, 1:322–25</span> </li> </ol>
