| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Mediæval Hymns and Sequences. Hora Novissima.
I. “The world is very evil” | | By John Mason Neale, trans. (1818–1866) |
| | (From “Bernard of Clugny”)
(Selected Passages)
THE WORLD is very evil; | |
| The times are waxing late: | |
| Be sober and keep vigil; | |
| The Judge is at the gate: | |
| The Judge that comes in mercy, | 5 |
| The Judge that comes with might, | |
| To terminate the evil, | |
| To diadem the right. | |
| When the just and gentle Monarch | |
| Shall summon from the tomb, | 10 |
| Let man, the guilty, tremble, | |
| For Man, the God, shall doom. | |
| Arise, arise, good Christian, | |
| Let right to wrong succeed; | |
| Let penitential sorrow | 15 |
| To heavenly gladness lead; | |
| To the light that hath no evening, | |
| That knows nor moon nor sun, | |
| The light so new and golden, | |
| The light that is but one. | 20 | | | |
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