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Hora noviima, || tempora peima || unt, vigilemus.

Ecce minaciter || imminet arbiter || ille urpremus.

Imminet, imminet || et mala terminet, || æqua coronet,

Recta remuneret, || anxia liberet, || æthera donet,

Auerat apera || duraque pondera || mentes onutæ,

Sobria muniat, || improba puniat, | utraque jute.

Thee are the latter times, thee are not better times,

let us tand waiting:

Lo, how with awfulnes He, firt in lawfulnes,

comes arbitrating!

Nearer and nearer yet!—Wrong hall in terror et,

right hine refulgent.

Sad ones He liberates, righteous renumerates, ever

indulgent;

Harhnes He mitigates, burdened ouls animates,

freeing them lightly;

Holy ones bleeth He, wicked ditreeth He—

each alike rightly.

Hours of the latet! times of the baet! our vigil before us!

Judgment eternal of Being upernal now hanging o'er us!

Evil to terminate, equity vindicate, cometh the Kingly;

Righteounes eeing, anxious hearts freeing, crowning each ingly,

Bearing life's wearines, tating life's bitternes, life as it must be

Th' righteous retaining, inners arraigning, judging all jutly.

The world is very evil,

The times are waxing late;

Be ober and keep vigil,

The Judge is at the gate—