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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.
A SONG OF EMPTINESS, To fill up the Empty Pages following. Vanity of Vanities.
Vain, frail, short lived, and miserable Man, Learn what thou art when thine estate is best: A restless Wave of the' troubled Ocean, A Dream, a lifeless Picture finely dressed:
VAin, frail, short liv'd, and miserable Man, Learn what thou art when thine estate is best: A restless Wave o'th' troubled Ocean, A Dream, a lifeless Picture finely drest:
A Wind, a Flower, a Vapour, and a Bubble, A Wheel that stands nor still, a trembling Reed, A rolling Stone, dry Dust, light Chaff, and Stubble, A Shadow of Something, but nought indeed.
Learn what deceitful Toys, and empty things, This World, and all its best Enjoyments be: Out of the Earth no true Contentment springs, But all things here are vexing Vanity.
Learn what deceitful Toyes, and empty things, This World, and all its best Enjoyments bee: Out of the Earth no true Contentment springs, But all things here are vexing Vanitee.