How great and of what kind
is the mourning of the condemned in the hour of judgment
(And indeed I have been set down as chief of the condemned).
When they see the Judge seated, fearful and exalted on His throne,
And when they behold the lines of the righteous and the saints shining in joy
And the sinners in dejection and eternal punishment,
They will cry out and show vain penitence.
Would that in the world we might show the fruit of repentance
And find the grace of mercy and forgiveness, O most just Judge.
St. Romanos the Melodist, Kontakion on the Second Coming
Locus Communis 