| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Hymn for the Dead | | By Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | | THAT 1 day of wrath, that dreadful day, | |
| When heaven and earth shall pass away! | |
| What power shall be the sinner’s stay? | |
| How shall he meet that dreadful day? | |
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| When, shriveling like a parched scroll, | 5 |
| The flaming heavens together roll; | |
| When louder yet, and yet more dread, | |
| Swells the high trump that wakes the dead! | |
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| Oh! on that day, that wrathful day, | |
| When man to judgment wakes from clay, | 10 |
| Be THOU the trembling sinner’s stay, | |
| Though heaven and earth shall pass away! | |
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