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mountains, fall upon us! Ye hills, cover us! " for who shall be able to withstand the wrath of God?[1] This thought is beautifully expressed in the sequence of Masses for the dead:
"Day of wrath, O day of mourning,
Lo, the world in ashes burning.
Seer and Sybil gave the warning.
What shall I, frail man be pleading?
Who for me be interceding
When the just are mercy needing?"
- ↑ Cf. Isaias ii, 9.
