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SONNET ON THE LAST VERSE OF THE BIBLE.
‘If any man add unto these things, God shall add unto him
the plagues that are written in this book; and if any man shall
take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God
shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the
holy city, and from the things that are written in this book.
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly.
Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.’
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Still are thy dread chords quivering fearfully!
Nor spent and silent shall the long sound be,
Till, like a bridegroom, lo, with exultation,
Over the last, the faithless generation,
Another sound goes out to welcome Thee,
Thy spouse, the thunder long delaying; and ye
Be blended in one vast reverberation,
Thou and the trumpet, over land and sea:
And the day dawns when scarce the righteous stands,
And the Great Judge, with hard avenging hands,
And infinite terror heralding His path,
Sheds the last curse over sins, and seas, and lands,
From the wine-cup of the fierceness of His wrath.
An. æt. 19.
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