Text: | Jerusalem the Golden |
Author: | Bernard of Cluny |
Translator: | John M. Neale |
Tune: | EWING |
Composer: | Alexander Ewing |
1 Jerusalem the golden,
With milk and honey blest!
Beneath thy contemplation
Sink heart and voice oppressed;
I know not, O I know not
What joys await us there;
What radiancy of glory,
What bliss beyond compare!
2 They stand, those halls of Zion,
All jubilant with song,
And bright with many an angel,
And all the martyr throng;
The Prince is ever in them,
The daylight is serene;
The pastures of the blessed
Are decked in glorious sheen.
3 There is the throne of David;
And there, from care released,
The song of them that triumph,
The shout of them that feast;
And they, who with their Leader
Have conquered in the fight,
Forever and forever
Are clad in robes of white.
4 O sweet and blessed country,
The home of God's elect!
O sweet and blessed country,
That eager hearts expect!
Jesus, in mercy bring us
To that dear land of rest;
Who art, with God the Father
And Spirit, ever blest.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Jerusalem the golden |
Title: | Jerusalem the Golden |
Author: | Bernard of Cluny (c. 1145) |
Translator: | John M. Neale (1851) |
Meter: | 7 6 7 6 D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1974 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Funeral |
Source: | Other translators also |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | EWING |
Composer: | Alexander Ewing (1853) |
Meter: | 7 6 7 6 D. |
Key: | C Major |