Becoming America - An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution, 2018a

BECOMING AMERICA
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH COLONIAL LITERATURE
these Torments, but for Ever!
To be released, or to be eased,
not after years, but Never!
CCIV
Oh, fearful Doom! now there’s no room
for hope, or help at all:
Sentence is past which ay shall last,
Christ will not it recall.
There might you hear them rent and tear
the Air with their out-c [. . .] ies:
The hideous noise of their sad voice
ascendeth to the skies.
CCV
They wring their hands, their caiti-hands,
and gnash their teeth for terrour:
They cry, they rore for anguish sore,
and gnaw their tongues for horrour.
But get away without delay;
Christ pities not your cry:
Depart to Hell [. . .] there may you yell
and roar Eternally.
CCVI
That word Depart, maugre their heart;
drives every wicked one,
With mighty pow’r, the self-same hour
far from the Judges throne.
Away they’re cast by the strong blast
of his Death-threatning mouth:
They [. . .] lee full fast, as if in hast;
although they be full loath.
CCVII
As cha that’s dry, and dust doth y
before the Northern wind:
Right so are they chased away,
and can no Refuge nd.
They hasten to the Pit of wo,
guarded by Angels stout:
Who to full Christ’s holy will
attend this wicked Rout.
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