I.

"The day of wrath: that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away!
What power shall be the sinner's stay?
Whom shall he trust that dreadful day?

II.

"When, shriv'lling, like a parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll,
When louder yet, and yet more dread,
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead,--

III.

"Oh, on that day, that wrathful day,
When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be thou, O Christ! the sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away!"

We also find in this collection the hymn which is sung to the Virgin of
Griefs in the Holy Week, and which begins thus:--

"Stabat mater dolorosa
Juxta crucem lachrymosa,
Dum pendebat filius."

{127} This game dance is repeated in the cathedral of Seville on the 8th
of December, the day of the immaculate conception of the Virgin, and
during eight days afterwards, which are called an _octave_. In the
present day this cathedral, as we have said elsewhere, has also the
singular privilege of using ornaments of a sky-blue colour, which is not
permitted by the church on other feast-days. These ornaments are of an
incomparable value, and the chief one of them, called _capa pluvial_, is
richly embroidered with pearls and precious stones.

{148a} "Digo un responso por una peseta."

{148b} "Yo lo digo por media peseta."

{174} The word _alms_ in this case does not mean alms given away to the
poor, but the money invested in the purchase of a copy of this bull,
published and sold by the commissary-general, or by the different
archbishops and bishops.

If we consider that the bull is printed on a small piece of very inferior
paper, and that it is sold for 7.5d., and that every Spaniard in the
Peninsula and its colonies is bound to purchase it, at the risk of
incurring a mortal sin every Friday in the year that he eats meat without
this authorization, we may form some idea of the enormous revenue derived
from this source by the Spanish Church, and by the Roman See, which has a
profit in the speculation. The Spanish Peninsula contains at the present
moment, on a very low calculation, fifteen millions of inhabitants, the
Philippine Islands four millions, and Cuba and Porto Rico together
something more than one million. In Spanish America, from Mexico to Cape
Horn, there are nearly s