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JOHN THE BAPTIST. / Repent! repent! repent! / For the kingdom of God is at hand, / And all the land / Full of the knowledge of the Lord shall be / As the waters cover the sea, / And encircle the continent!
Repent! repent! repent! / For lo, the hour appointed, / The hour so long foretold / By the Prophets of old, / Of the coming of the Anointed, / The Messiah, the Paraclete, / The Desire of the Nations, is nigh! / He shall not strive nor cry, / Nor his voice be heard in the street; / Nor the bruised reed shall He break, / Nor quench the smoking flax; / And many of them that sleep / In the dust of earth shall awake, / On that great and terrible day, / And the wicked shall wail and weep, / And be blown like a smoke away, / And be melted away like wax. / Repent! repent! repent!