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Encompass’d with a thousand dangers, Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors.… I … in a fleshly tomb, am Buried above ground. —WILLIAM COWPER
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Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion,
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Scarce can endure delay of execution,
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Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my
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Soul in a moment.
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Damned below Judas: more abhorred than he was,
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Who for a few pence sold his holy master.
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Twice betrayed, Jesus me, the last delinquent,
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Deems the profanest.
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me:
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Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;
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Therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all
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Bolted against me.
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Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers;
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Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,
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I’m called, if vanquished, to receive a sentence
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Worse than Abiram’s.
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Him the vindictive rod of angry justice
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Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong;
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I, fed with judgment, in a fleshly tomb, am
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Buried above ground. |