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

BECOMING AMERICA
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH COLONIAL LITERATURE
CCVIII
Whom having brought, as they are taught
unto the brink of Hell
(That dismal place far from Christ’s face,
where Death and Darkness dwell:
Where God’s erce ire kindleth the re,
and Vengeance feeds the ame
With piles of wood, and brimstone ood,
that none can quench the same.)
CCIX
With Iron bands they bind their hands
and cursed feet together,
And cast them all, both great and small,
into that Lake for ever.
Where day and night, without respite,
they wail, and cry, and howl
For tor’ [. . .] ring pain, which they sustain
in Body and in Soul.
CCX
For day and night, in their despight,
their torments smoak ascendeth:
Their pain and grief have no relief,
their anguish never endeth.
There must they lye, and never dye;
though dying every day:
There must they dying ever lye;
and not consume away.
CCXI
Dye fain they would, if dye they cou [. . .]
but death will not be had [. . .]
Gods dire [. . .] ul wrath their bodies hath
for ev’r Immortal made.
They live to lie in misery.
and bear eternal wo:
And live they must whil’st God is just,
that he may plague them so.
CCXII
But who can tell the plagues of Hell,
and torments exquisite?
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