JUDGMENT. 289 1 Judgment-day. C.M. WHEN rising from the bed of death, O'erwhelmed with guilt and fear, I see my Maker face to face O, how shall I appear! 2 If yet, while pardon may be found, My heart with inward horror shrinks, 3 When thou, O Lord! shalt stand disclosed In majesty severe, And sit in judgment on my soul, 4 Prepare me, Lord, to meet that day, When I shall view these solemn scenes, And feel their awful weight. 290 1 The Judge. AND will the Judge descend? And must the dead arise? And not a single soul escape 2 And from his righteous lips S. M. And through the numerous guilty throng Spread black despair around? 3 4 "Depart from me, accursed, How will my heart endure When earth and heaven, before his face, Astonished, shrink away! 5 But ere the trumpet shakes The mansions of the dead, 6 Hark from the gospel's cheering sound Ye sinners, seek his grace, So shall the curse remove, 291 The wicked Child judged. L. M. HOW dreadful, Lord, will be the day Be brought before thy piercing eyes! No teacher, then, shall bid him pray 4 Great God! I tremble at the thought; 1 3 292 Time mis-spent. DREAD and solemn hour A To us is drawing near; S. M. When we, before the throne of God, What answer shall we give, The seasons that were once our own, This will be wo indeed: To regions of despair Our own neglect will sink us down, HEAVEN AND HELL. 293 1 Heaven. THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, C. M. 2 There everlasting spring abides, 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood 4 But timorous mortals start, and shrink 5 0, could we make our doubts remove, 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er; 2 3 Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. 294 Heaven and Hell. THERE is, beyond the sky, A heaven of joy and love; And holy children, when they die, There is a dreadful hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must forever dwell, Can such a wretch as I Escape this dreadful end? And may I hope, whene'er I die, S. M. |