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THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, by                    
First Line: Asunder shall the clouds be rolled
Last Line: With vanished light like dead men's eyes
Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man


ASUNDER shall the clouds be rolled,
Like to God's golden palace gate.
Then shall our eyes the Judge behold
In glorious and solemn state.

The rainbow's splendour for His crown:
His voice like torrents in the glen:
His glance like lightning flashing down
From dark clouds to affrighted men.

The sun, that bright torch of the sky,
Shall pale before such radiant light;
The blinding flashes from His eye
Shall hide its brilliance from our sight.

Thus mournfully its light shall fade:
And red with blood shall be the moon.
The stars in heaven shall be swayed,
And totter at the knell of doom.

Like fruit-buds on a wind-swept plain
The stars shall scatter through the skies,
And drop down to the earth like rain,
With vanished light like dead men's eyes.





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