Sir E. Bulwer Lytton.

That day of wrath, that dreadful day,

When heaven and earth shall pass away;

What power shall be the sinner’s stay?

How will ye meet that dreadful day?

When shrivelling like a parched scroll,

The flaming heavens together roll;

When louder yet, and yet more dread,

Swells the high trump that wakes the dead.

O! on that day, that wrathful day,