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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.
How canst thou hold from weeping floods of tears,
Yea, tears of blood, I might almost have shed,
Yea, tears of blood, I might almost have sed,
[…] such like tears could from thine eyes be shed?
〈…〉 such like tears could from thine eyes be shed?
To gain the world what will it profit […],
To gain the world what will it profit 〈…〉,
And loose thy Soul and self eternally?