The Advice
July 6, 2023Narva and Mored
July 6, 2023On The Last Epiphany (Or Christ Coming To Judgment)
Behold! just coming from above,
The judge, with majesty and love!
The sky divides, and rolls away,
T’admit him through the realms of day!
The sun, astonished, hides its face,
The moon and stars with wonder gaze
At Jesu’s bright superior rays!
Dread lightnings flash, and thunders roar,
And shake the earth and briny shore;
The trumpet sounds at heaven’s command,
And pierceth through the sea and land;
The dead in each now hear the voice,
The sinners fear and saints rejoice;
For now the awful hour is come,
When every tenant of the tomb
Must rise, and take his everlasting doom.
Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was an English poet and forger. He is best known for his "Rowley Poems," a series of works he claimed were written by a 15th-century monk named Thomas Rowley. Although the poems were later revealed to be forgeries, they had a significant impact on the Romantic movement and continue to be studied today. Chatterton committed suicide at the age of 17.