StoryTitle("caps", "The Day of Judgement ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the fierce North-wind with his airy forces ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Rushing amain down; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the poor sailors stand amazed and tremble, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While the hoarse thunder, like a bloody trumpet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Roars a loud onset to the gaping waters ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Quick to devour them. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such shall the noise be, and the wild disorder ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(If things eternal may be like these earthly), ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such the dire terror when the great Archangel ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Shakes the creation; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tears the strong pillars of the vault of Heaven, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Breaks up old marble, the repose of princes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sees the graves open, and the bones arising, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Flames all around them. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hark, the shrill outcries of the guilty wretches! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lively bright horror and amazing anguish ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stare thro' their eyelids, while the living worm lies ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Gnawing within them. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the smart twinges, when the eye beholds the ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lofty Judge frowning, and a flood of vengeance ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Rolling afore him. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hopeless immortals! how they scream and shiver, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While devils push them to the pit wide-yawning ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hideous and gloomy, to receive them headlong ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Down to the centre! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stop here, my fancy: (all away, ye horrid ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Doleful ideas!) come, arise to Jesus, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How He sits God-like! and the saints around Him ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Throned, yet adoring! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O may I sit there when He comes triumphant, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dooming the nations! then ascend to glory, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While our Hosannas all along the passage ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Shout the Redeemer.", "") ?>
Poet("Isaac Watts", "1674–1748") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>