Awhile sit desolate.

2 Let all the people, high and low,

Rich, poor, and great and small,

Invoke, in fellowship of woe,

The Maker of them all.

3 For God hath summoned from his place,

Death, in a direr form,

To waken, warn, and scourge our race,

Than earthquakes, fire, or storm.

4 Let churches weep within their pale,