The Scarlet Tide lyrics

“scarlet tide” was performed by alison krauss for the civil war movie “cold mountain. ” the phrase “the scarlet tide of war” appears in a collection of poetry called hebrew lyrics by hans busk, published in london in 1861. The phrase is part of “lyric cxxiv:”
hot was that rampant rage that threatened to devour
and had consumed us in its wanton flame
hadst thou our hosts forsaken in that trying hour,
nor stemmed the scarlet tide of war that came
to drown thy nursling-nation and its name. ...

It is a paraphrase of part of psalm 124. I treasure both alison's recording and joan baez' version. Both are very powerful for my family right now as my daughter's husband prepares to go to iraq with his national guard unit.