Anne, your words may be different from those below. If so, could you post them? The Bodleian versions I found only had 5 verses each.

My second hand information on this is that there is an article: G. W. Williams, "Babylon is Fallen: The Story of a North American Hymn" _The Hymn_ Volume 44, April 1993, pp 31-35.

In it is the information that "The original six-stanza text was by Richard McNemar and first appeared in the Shaker hymnal _Millennial Praises, Containing a Collection of Gospel Hymns ...Adapted to the Day of Christ's Second Appearing_ (Hancock, Mass.), 1813."

Here are the words

1.Hail the day so long expected!
Hail the year of full release!
Zion's walls are now erected,
And her watchmen publish peace:
From the distant coasts of Shinar,
The shrill trumpet loudly roars
   Refrain: Babylon is fallen! is fallen! is fallen!
             Babylon is fallen to rise no more.

2. Hark, and hear her people crying,
"See the city disappear!
Trade and traffic all are dying!
Lo, we sink and perish here!"
Sailors who have bought her traffic,
Crying from her distant shore,
   Refrain

3. All her merchants cry with wonder,
"What is this that's come to pass?"
Murm'ring like the distant thunder
Crying out, Alas! Alas!
Swell the sound, ye kings and nobles!
Priests and people, rich and poor!
   Refrain

4. Lo, the captives are returning!
Up to Zion see them fly!
While the smoke of Babel's burning
Rolls across the darken'd sky!
Days of mourning now are ended,
Years of bondage now are o'er,
   Refrain

5. Zion's children raise your voices,
And the joyful news proclaim!
How the heavenly host rejoices!
Shout and echo back the same!
See the ancients of the city,
Terrify'd at the uproar!
   Refrain

6. Tune your harps, ye heavenly choir!
Shout, ye foll'wers of the Lamb!
See the city all on fire!
Clap your hands and blow the flame!
Now's the day of compensation
On the scarlet colour'd whore;
   Refrain