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I: God with one piercing glance looks through / Creation's wide-extended frame; / The past and future in his view, / And days and ages are the same.
II: Sinners who dare provoke his face, / Who on his patience long presume, / And trifle out his day of grace, / Will find he has a day of doom, / III: As pangs the labouring woman feels, / Or as the thief in midnight sleep, / So comes that day for which the wheels / Of time their ceaseless motion keep!
IV: Hark! from the sky the trump proclaims / Jesus the Judge approaching nigh!
See the creation wrapt in flames, / First kindled by his vengeful eye!
V: When thus the mountains melt like wax; / When earth and air and sea shall burn; / When all the frame of nature breaks; / Poor sinner, whither wilt thou turn?
VI: The puny works which feeble men / Now boast or covet or admire; / Their pomp and arts and treasures then / Shall perish in one common fire.
VII: Lord, fix our hearts and hopes above, / Since all below to ruin tends; / Here may we trust, obey, and love, / And there be found amongst thy friends.