letra de sappho - william billings
when the fierce north wind with his airy forces
rears up the baltic to a foaming fury;
and the red lightning, with a storm of hail, comes
rushing amain down
how the poor sailors stand amazed and tremble!
while the ho-rs- thunder, like a bl–dy trumpet
roars a loud onset to the gaping waters
quick to devour them!
such shall the noise be, and the wild disorder
(if things eternal may be like these earthly)
such the dire terror, when the grеat archangel
shakes the crеation:
tears the strong pillars of the vault of heaven
breaks up old marble, the repose of princes;
see the graves open, and the bones arising
flames all around ’em
hark, the shrill outcries of the guilty wretches!
lively bright horror and amazing anguish
stare through their eye-lids, while the living worm lies
gnawing within them
thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
and the smart twinges, when their eye beholds the
lofty judge frowning, and a flood of vengeance
rolling afore him
hopeless immortals! how they scream and shiver
while devils push them to the pit wide yawning
hideous and gloomy, to receive them headlong
down to the center!
stop here, my fancy: (all away, ye horrid
doleful ideas) come, arise to jesus!
how he sits god-like! and the saints around him
throned, yet adoring !
o may i sit there when he comes triumphant
dooming the nations! then ascend to glory
while our hosannas, all along the passage
shout the redeemer!
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