Tune: Picardy
(\'Let all mortal flesh keep silence\')
Revelation 6 v.12-17
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John beheld the sixth seal opened
A great earthquake, rocks did rend
Sun became black as sackcloth hair
Moon became as blood then there
Stars of heaven unto the earth fell
Like unready figs we tell
Heaven departed as a scroll
When together one does roll
Every mountain and island moved
Out of their places, it proved
Kings of the earth, rich men and great
Considered their dreadful state
From great to least, from slave to free
Hid themselves in dens, so be
And in rocks of mountains, did say
Fall on us, hide us, we pray
From face of Him sat on the throne
Great day of His wrath now known