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The Trumpet

From ‘Pearls of the Faith’
Magnify Him, Al-Kaîyum; and so call
The “Self-subsisting” God who judgeth all.

WHEN the trumpet shall sound,

On that day,

The wicked, slow-gathering,

Shall say,

“Is it long we have lain in our graves?

For it seems as an hour!”

Then will Israfil call them to judgment:

And none shall have power

To turn aside, this way or that;

And their voices will sink

To silence, except for the sounding

Of a noise, like the noise on the brink

Of the sea when its stones

Are dragged with a clatter and hiss

Down the shore, in the wild breakers’ roar!

The sound of their woe shall be this:—

Then they who denied

That He liveth Eternal, “Self-made,”

Shall call to the mountains to crush them;

Amazed and affrayed.

Thou Self-subsistent, Living Lord!

Thy grace against that day afford.