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The day of doom
The day of doom: or, A poetical description of the Great and Last Judgment. With a short discourse about eternity. / By Michael Wigglesworth, teacher of the church at Maldon, in N.E.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1701
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
(4) Tell every Star both near and far, in Heaven's bright Canopy, That doth appear throughout the year, of high or low degree: Tell every Tree that thou canst see in this vast Wilderness, Up in •e Woods, down by the Floods in thousand miles progress.
(4) Tell every Star both near and far, in Heav'ns bright Canopee, That doth appear throughout the year, of high or low degree: Tell every Tree that thou canst see in this vast Wilderness, Up in •e Woods, down by the Floods in thousand miles progress.
(5) The sum is vast, yet not so vast, but that thou mayest go on To multiply the Leaves thereby, that hang those Trees upon: Add thereunto tho Drops, that thou imaginest to be In April Showers, that bring forth Flowers, and blossoms plenteously:
(5) The sum is vast, yet not so vast, but that thou may'st go on To multiply the Leaves thereby, that hang those Trees upon: Add thereunto tho Drops, that thou imaginest to be In April Show'rs, that bring forth Flow'rs, and blossoms plenteously:
(6) Number the Fowls and living Souls that through the Air do Fly, The winged Hosts in all their Coasts beneath the Starry Sky: Count all the Grass as thou dost pass through many a pasture-land, And dewy Drops that on the tops of Herbs and Plants do stand.