THE
Midnight Wonder,
OR,
The Ringing of the Bells.
Tune of, Let Mary live long:
With Allewance:
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GOod People attend,
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Without Disputation,
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Here is a Relation,
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The like was ne'er Penn'd
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Before, I declare:
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Thro the World you may range,
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Yet a Wonder more strange,
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You never will find;
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And therefore I'd have you,
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And therefore I'd have you
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Now listen and mind.
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At Midnight you know,
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The Bells they were Ringing,
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And sweet Voices Singing,
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Both lofty and low,
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Tho late in the Night:
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But the Doors being fast,
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The poor Sexton at last
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Was forced to Rise;
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This wonderful (a) Ringing,
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This wonderful Ringing,
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It did him surprize.
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Then taking his Keys,
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The Sexton did venter,
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The Church-doors to enter,
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Yet nothing he sees,
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But Ringing he heard,
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Till up Stairs he run,
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And there he found one,
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That frighten'd him so,
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He was almost sensless,
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He was almost sensless,
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And not able to go.
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O there did he gaze,
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His Senses and Reason
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Was lost for a Season;
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He stood in a Maze,
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Alass, for a while;
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For all in his sight,
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There appear'd one in White
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Put him to a stand,
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Like one near Distracted,
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Like one near Distracted,
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With Keys in his Hand.
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Down Stairs did he go,
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The Bells straightways ceasing,
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New wonders encreasing,
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When walking below,
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The Sexton beheld,
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Two (b) Angels in sight,
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Who there bid him write,
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Of what he had seen;
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One was in (c) white Garment,
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One was in white Garment,
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The other in (d) Green.
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Behold we are sent,
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To tell the People,
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Altho in the Steeple,
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Like Christians Repent,
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Before 'tis too late;
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For, except you Reform,
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An invincible storm
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On the wicked will fall:
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Remember this Message,
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Remember this Message,
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Repent one and all.
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There's Mercy in store,
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Upon their submission,
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With Tears of Contrition;
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And therefore implore
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The Heavens above,
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Now to turn away
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All Judgment this day,
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Let Friendship remain,
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And then the three Kingdoms,
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And then the three Kingdoms,
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Shall flourish again.
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(a) The young
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Man Rung long-
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er than the
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Sexton gave
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leave.
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(b) Two young
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Men whose
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Names were
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Angels.
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(c) A young
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Man in Shirt
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and Drawers.
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(d) In a green
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Wastcoat, both
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Apprentices.
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