To Cowper and other poems : autograph manuscript of 9 poems, signed, 1842–1845
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900
“A Word to the Calvinists” (pp. 18–21)
Dated 28 May 1843, when Brontë was twenty-three. First published in Poems (1846) with title “A Word to the ‘Elect.’” Poem 22 in Chitham (1979).
That even the wicked shall at last
Be fitted for the skies
And when their dreadful doom is past
To life and light arise
I ask not how remote the day
Nor what the sinner’s wo
Before their dross is purged away
Enough for me to know
That when the cup cup of wrath is drained
The mettal purified
They’ll cling to what they once disdained
And live by Him that died
Anne Brontë
May 28th 1843
Text as published in Poems (1846)
That even the wicked shall at last
Be fitted for the skies;
And, when their dreadful doom is past,
To life and light arise.
I ask not, how remote the day,
Nor what the sinners’ woe,
Before their dross is purged away;
Enough for me, to know
That when the cup of wrath is drained,
The metal purified,
They’ll cling to what they once disdained,
And live by Him that died.
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