To the servers of Truth in that sad time.

VIII

There the bodies, bathed of their sins,

Shall go in gladness; again shall their spirits

520 To their bony frames, and the fire shall burn,

Mounting high to heaven. Hot shall be to many

That awful flame, when every man,

Unblemished or sinful, his soul in his body,

From the depths of his grave seeks the doom of God,

525 Frightfully afraid. The fire shall save men,