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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Do thou my head and heart inspire,
To Sing aright, as I desire.
Thee, thee alone I'll invocate,
Thee, thee alone I'le invocate,
For I do much abominate
To call the Muses to mine aid:
Which is the' Unchristian use, and trade
Which is th' Unchristian use, and trade