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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.
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Thou hangest o•r the Infernal Pit
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By one small thread, and carest thou not a whit?
By one small threed, and car'st thou not a whit?
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There's but a step between thy Soul and Death,
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Nothing remains but stopping of thy breath,
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(Which may be done to morrow, or before)
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And then thou art undone for evermore.