Behold! just coming from above, <br />The judge, with majesty and love! <br />The sky divides, and rolls away, <br />T'admit him through the realms of day! <br />The sun, astonished, hides its face, <br />The moon and stars with wonder gaze <br />At Jesu's bright superior rays! <br />Dread lightnings flash, and thunders roar, <br />And shake the earth and briny shore; <br />The trumpet sounds at heaven's command, <br />And pierceth through the sea and land; <br />The dead in each now hear the voice, <br />The sinners fear and saints rejoice; <br />For now the awful hour is come, <br />When every tenant of the tomb <br />Must rise, and take his everlasting doom.<br /><br />Thomas Chatterton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-last-epiphany-or-christ-coming-to-judgment/
