The day of wrath, that dreadful day
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The day of wrath, that dreadful day,When heaven and earth shall pass away!What power shall be the sinner's stay?How shall he meet that dreadful day?
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When, shriveling like a parchèd scroll,The flaming heavens together roll,And louder yet, and yet more dread,Resounds the trump that wakes the dead,—
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O, on that day, that wrathful day,When man to Judgment wakes from clay,Be thou, O Christ, thy people's stay,Though heaven and earth shall pass away.