Come Away!

Out of Sodom and Gomorrah,
     Up from all the darkened plain,
Where the Wine-god sheds the horror
     Of his burning sulphur rain,
               Oh! we bid you
                    Come away! come away!
               Speed you! speed you! God shall lead you
               While you hurry to obey!

Lurid gleams the clouds illumine
     From their own electric bars;
Under foot the hot bitumen
     With volcanic thunder jars!
               Oh! we bid you
                    Come away! come away!
               Speed you! speed you! God shall lead you
               While you hurry to obey!

Ha! the beauty of the flashes
     Hides the double sting of death,
And a swirling of black ashes
     Chokes the last expiring breath.
               Ha! we bid you
                    Come away! come away!
               Speed you! speed you! God shall lead you
               While you hurry to obey!

See the flame-burst lap to cinders
     Reeling squadrons just below,
And the black soil sinks and renders
     Your own downfall swifter, so!
               Ah! we bid you
                    Come away! come away!
               Speed you! speed you! God shall lead you
               While you hurry to obey!