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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.
For as the Sun doth blind the gazer's eyes, That for a time they nought discern aright: So Honour doth befool and blind the Wise, And their own Lustre 'reaves them of their sight.
Great are their Dangers, manifold their Cares; Through' which, whilst others Sleep, they scarcely Nap; And yet are oft surprised unawares, And fall unweeting into Envies Trap.
Great are their Dangers, manifold their Cares; Thro' which, whilst others Sleep, they scarcely Nap; And yet are oft surprized unawares, And fall unweeting into Envies Trap.
The mean Mechanic finds his kindly rest All void of fear Sleepeth the Country-Clown: When greatest Princes often are distressed, And cannot Sleep upon their Beds of Down.
The mean Mechanick finds his kindly rest All void of fear Sleepeth the Country-Clown: When greatest Princes often are distrest, And cannot Sleep upon their Beds of Down.
Could Strength or Valour men Immortalize, Could Wealth or Honour keep them from decay, There were some cause the same to Idolize, •nd give the lye to that which I do say.