Religion
Hymn: The Holy Company of Heaven Rejoycing at the Overthrow of Babylon
From A Paraphrase upon the Canticles (1679)
HALLELUJAH! To our King,
Honour, Power, and Glory sing:
Laud and Worship to Him bring,
True and Righteous are whose Ways;
Both deserves, and has our Praise.
True and Righteous is his Doom,
For in Judgment overcome,
Chain'd the great Whore stands, and Dumb
Chain'd she stands, and Dumb withal,
Without Friend, or Voice to call.
Judg'd she is, who th' Earth did stain
With her Prostituted Train:
Justly judg'd to 'Eternal Pain,
And aveng'd the Blood she shed,
Dying ever, is never dead.
Et dixerunt iterum Halleluja.
Hallelujah; to our King
Worship, Laud, and Praises bring,
Glory, Power, and Honour sing!
Lo! how up her Smoke does rise,
Who dead ever, never Dies!
Ceciderúntque viginti quatuor Seniores, &c.
& dixerunt Amen, &c.
Even so, Lord, be it so!
That the Earth Thy Power may know,
And thence make Thy Praise to grow!
One bless'd Song with us may sing,
Halleluja to our King!
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MLA
Woodford, Samuel. “Hymn: The Holy Company of Heaven Rejoycing at the Overthrow of Babylon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/woodford/24/.
Chicago
Woodford, Samuel. “Hymn: The Holy Company of Heaven Rejoycing at the Overthrow of Babylon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/woodford/24/.
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