Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1846 Excerpt: ... &lje Neto Jerusalem; am, The Soul's Breathing After Her Heavenly Country. "Since Christ's fair truth needs no man's art, Take this rude song in better part." O Mother dear, Jerusalem, When shall I come to thee? When shall my sorrows have an end--Thy joys when shall I see? O happy harbour of God's saints! O sweet and pleasant soil! In thce no sorrows can be found,--No grief, no care, no toil. In thce no sickness is at all, No hurt nor any sore; There is no death, nor ugly eight, But life for evermore. No dimming cloud o'ershadows thee, No cloud nor darksome night; But every soul shines as the sun, For God himself gives light. There lust and lucre cannot dwell, There envy bears no sway; There is no hunger, thirst, nor heat, But pleasures every way. Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Would God I were in thee! O that my sorrows had an end, Thy joys that I might see! No pains, no pangs, no grieving grief, No woful wight is there; No sigh, no sob; no cry is heard--No well-away, no fear. Jerusalem the city is Of God our King alone j The Lamb of God, the light thereof, Sits there upon his throne. O God! that I Jerusalem, With speed may go behold! For why? the pleasures there abound Which here cannot be told. Thy turrets and thy pinnacles, With carbuncles do shine, With jasper, pearl, and chrysolite, Surpassing pure and fine. Thy houses are of ivory, Thy windows crystal clear, Thy streets are laid with beaten gold--There angels do appear. Thy walls are made of precious stone, Thy bulwarks diamond square, Thy gates are made of Orient pearl--O God, if I were there! Within thy gates no thing can come That is not passing clean; No spider's web, no dirt, nor dust, No filth may there be seen. J Ehovah, Lord, now come away, And end my grief and plaints; Take me to thy Jerusalem, And pl...
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