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That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away; What power shall be the sinner’s stay? How will ye meet that dreadful day? When shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead. O! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay; Be Thou the trembling sinner’s stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.
That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away; What power shall be the sinner’s stay? How will ye meet that dreadful day? When shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead. O! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay; Be Thou the trembling sinner’s stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.
Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- Sir Walter Scott
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- Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 166 · printed citation: Scott · subject: DAY
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