The day of judgment: a poetical essay / [Robert Glynn].

  • Glynn, Robert, 1719-1800
Date:
1757
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Credit: The day of judgment: a poetical essay / [Robert Glynn]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And judge with equal love. What tho’ the Great With collly pomp, and aromatic fweets. Embalm’d his poor remains; or thro’ the Dome A thoufand tapers fhed their gloomy light. While folemn organs to his parting foul Chaunted flow orifons.^ Say, by what mark Do’fl; thou difoern him from that lowly Swain, Whofe mouldering bones beneath the thorn-bound turf Long lay neglected.? — All at once Ihall rilej But not to equal Glory: for, alas! With bowlings dire, and execrations loud. Some wail their fatal birth. — Firft among thefo Behold the mighty murth’rers of mankind • They who in fport whole kingdoms flewj or they Who to the tott’ring pinnacle of power Waded thro’ feas of blood! How will they curfe The madnefs of ambition j How lament Their dear-bought Laurels j when the widow’d wife. And childlefs mother, at the Judgment-Seat Plead trumpet-tongu’d againft them I—Here are they Who funk an aged Father to the Grave ; Or with unkindnefs hard and cold difdain Slighted a Brother’s fulF’rings: — Here are they Whom