 | Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 334 pages
...it meet with sacred strain To close my lay so light and vain, Thus the holy fathers sung. XXXII. • HYMN FOR THE DEAD. That day of wrath, that dreadful...stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll; When louder yet, and yet more... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1805 - 344 pages
...Were it meet with sacred strain To close my lay so light and vain, Thus the holy fathers sung. XXXII. HYMN FOR THE DEAD. That day of wrath, that dreadful...sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? 192 When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 340 pages
...meet with sacred strain To close my lay so light and vain, Thus the holy fathers sung. XXXII. HYMN FOB THE DEAD. That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When...stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 pages
...it meet with sacred strain To close my lay, so light and vain, Thus the holy Fathers sung. - XXXII. HYMN FOR THE DEAD. That day of wrath, that dreadful...shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay F How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...unsung. After introducing the ballads of three different bards, he finely concludes with the following hymn for the dead. That day of wrath, that dreadful...and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinners stay ! How shall he meet that dreadful day > When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming... | |
 | 1806 - 502 pages
...over his grave. As they are the last words of the last Minstrel, ye must give them to ouy readers. ' That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven...What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall be meet that dreadful day ? When shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 254 pages
...SOIVET s/i-:(:r.iiM IN FAVILI.A; While the pealing organ rung; Were it meet with seeret strain To elose my lay, so light and vain, Thus the holy fathers sung....heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall ho the siuner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day? When, shrivelling like a parehed seroll,... | |
 | James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 pages
...the kingdom all thine own. XVII. THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. A HYMN, FttSM THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. 1 THAT day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven...sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? 2 When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...sacred strain To close my lay, so light and vain, Thus the holy Fathers sung. XXXI. ^pmn for tfie SDea&f That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven...stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...strain To close my lay, so light and vain, Thus the holy Fathers sung. XXXI. ^pmit for flic SDeafc, That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven...stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll; When louder yet, and yet more... | |
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That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day... 
