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The Day of Doom was a religious poem by clergyman Michael Wigglesworth that became a best-selling classic in Puritan New England for a century after it was published in 1662. The poem describes the Day of Judgment in which a vengeful God sentences sinners (including by Puritan theology unbaptized infants) to punishment in hell. It was so popular that the early editions were thumbed to shreds. No first editions are known to exist.