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 Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905. 
 
 mother dear, Jerusalem] The old hymn, its 
 origin and genealogy. Edited by William C. 
 Prime ... New York, A. D. F. Randolph, 1867. 
 
 xxxiii, 35-112 p. 19cm. 
 
 Running title: The new Jerusalem. 
 
 Appendix: Hymn of Hildebert.—Laus patriae 
 coelestis.— The celestial country.— Hymn of 
 Peter Damiani.^-The Joys of Heaven.— Descrip- 
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O MOTHER DEAR 
 
 JERUSALEM! 
 
 THE OLD HYMN, 
 
 Its Origin and Genealogy. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 WILLIAM C. PRIME, 
 
 Autlior of ''Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia," " Tent Life in the 
 
 Holy Land," etc. 
 
 New York : 
 
 Anson D. F. Randolph, No. 770 Broadway 
 
 CORNER OF NINTH STREET. 
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 Entered, acconling to Act of Congress, in the year 1S&4, 
 By Anson D. F. Randolph, 
 
 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for 
 the Southern District of ^'ew York. 
 
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 C^omas S, CrumbuH, 
 
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 4Harti) 30tL 1805. 
 
 5unt moio prarlfa. postmoUo praemfa, qualfa? plena 
 i3Ifna rcfectto, nullaque passio, nullaquc poena. 
 
 ^ax gfne criminf. pax sine turbine, pax sine tiia, 
 ^cta labovifius, atque tumultibus antfiora fixa. 
 
 And now we fight the battle, and then we wear the crown 
 Of full, and everlasting, and passionless renown ! 
 
 And peace, for war is needless-and rest, for s^torm is past 
 And goal from finished labor, and anchorage at lastl 
 
 (ili) 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGK 
 
 INTRODUCTION vii 
 
 THE HYMN. 85 
 
 HYMN OF HILDEBERT, Appendix 1 51 
 
 LAUS PATRLE COELESTIS, " II 59 
 
 THE CELESTIAL COUNTRY, " * III m 
 
 HYMN OF PETER DAMIANI, " IV 79 
 
 THE JOYS OF HEAVEN, " V 88 
 
 DESCRIPTION OF HEAVENLY IERU3ALEM— Appendix 
 
 VI S9 
 
 DE GLORIA, Appendix VII 97 
 
 A SONG By F. B. P., " VIII 99 
 
 DIFFERENT VERSIONS " IX 104 
 
INTRODUCTIOK 
 
 ^' 
 
 1 ) \ 
 
 NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION. 
 
 The unexpected rapidity with which two Editions of this 
 Hook have heen exhausted^ has induced the puUication of a third, 
 with some chan'jes and additions, which it is hoped wiU make it 
 more accepUihle and valuable to lovers of the Old Ihimn and its 
 suhject: For the translation of part of the ffi/mn of Bernard 
 de Clufjny in the former editions, is suhstituted a more extended 
 awl admirahle translatioiv hy the same author {Rev. Dr. Neale), 
 recently piMished hj him in Ewjlin^l. Tlie jx^rtion of the flymn 
 given in the ori(/in<il consists of selections, which are included in 
 this translation. An excellent translation of the I/f/mn of Peter 
 Damiani is also Oild&l, from, " The Voice of Christian, Life in 
 Sonj." 
 
 April, 18G5. ^r <. p 
 
 (vi) 
 
 The Old Hymn, to whicli tliis little book is 
 devoted, and which is liere given as nearly as 
 may be in the form which it bore two hundred 
 years ago, needs no words of praise to commend 
 it. It is a grand poem, and one or another 
 portion of it will reach every heart with its 
 power and beauty. It has been a comfort and 
 joy to very many people, both in this form, 
 and in the numerous variations, abbreviations, 
 and alterations in Avhicli it has from time to 
 time appeared among the sacred poems of the 
 Christian world. As in an old church, where 
 successive generations of men and women have 
 prayed awhile and then gone away, it is im- 
 possible not to feel that there is an accumula- 
 tion of sacred associations hallowino; the walls : 
 as in a venerable catliedral, tlie memorv of 
 successive solemn services performed by the 
 feeble voices of the fast vanishing pilgrims of 
 this life makes the place peculiarly holy ; as in 
 
 (vii) 
 
VIU 
 
 THE XhJW JEnrSALE.U. 
 
 THE A^EW JERUSALE3f. 
 
 IX 
 
 some sacred place, like the little sepulchre at 
 Jerusalem, the remembrance of the knees that 
 hare pressed the rock, the lips that have touched 
 the marble tomb, the prayers tliat have gone 
 up to God from the small chamber, year after 
 year, century after century, age after age, 
 makes the place seem verily like one of the 
 gateways of heaven, even if it were never 
 hallowed by the bodily presence of the rising 
 Redeemer — so, in an old song of the Church 
 like this, there is additional sanctity, with ever 
 increasing force, and beauty, and power, for 
 the memory of the innumerable lips that have 
 sung it here, and have gone to sing other and 
 nobler songs up yonder. 
 
 This hymn has grown to be very sacred. It 
 was sung by the martyrs of Scotland in the 
 words we have liere. It has rung in triumph- 
 ant tones througli the arches of mighty cathe- 
 drals ; it lias been chaunted by the lips of 
 kings, and queens, and nobles ; it has ascended 
 in the still air above the cottage roofs of the 
 poor ; it has given utterance to the hopes and 
 expectations of the Christian on every conti- 
 aent, by every sea-shore, in hall and hovel, 
 
 until it has become, in one or another of its 
 forms, the possession of the whole Christian 
 world. 
 
 And I think that in tracini? its historv, we 
 
 CD ^7 
 
 may find that of all our sacred poetry, this has 
 a higher lineage, a more ancient, honourable 
 and even holy origin, than any other hymn or 
 song of the Church, which is not a direct para- 
 phrase of the inspired writings. 
 
 The future life, the immortal life in distinc- 
 tion from life on earth, has in all ages been a 
 subject of the deepest interest to the thinkino- 
 man. But it is strange to see how little after 
 all seems to have been known of it, for many 
 thousand years, and how men, even in the land 
 of propliets and priests of God, appeared to look 
 at the grave as the dark passage into uncer- 
 tainty. The unutterable mournfulness of the 
 death-bed of Jacob consists in the propliecies 
 of future glory to his cliildren, the distribution 
 of power and honour to his twelve strong sons, 
 fathers of twelve nations wliicli were to be 
 lordly lines of kings and priests on earth, 
 and in his then turning himself over to die, 
 and be buried in the cave of Maclipelah, with- 
 
X THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 out one word of his own dark future. " There, 
 said he, " they buried Abraliam and Sarah his 
 wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his 
 wife ; and there I buried Leah," but no utter- 
 ance escaped his lips expressing confidence or 
 tliouglit that lie was departing to join his 
 fathers, tlie mighty patriarchs ; no hope of 
 meeting and clasping the hand of her he met 
 and kissed bv the well-side in tlie East coun- 
 try ; no exulting triumph in the belief that he 
 was to pass into the presence of Him whose 
 angels he saw at Bethel, with whom he strove 
 and won a princely name and a blessing at 
 Peniel. We cannot doubt that he had such 
 hope. Yet the sacred historian only recorded 
 that he was " gathered unto his people." And 
 "gathered to his fiithers" was the doubtful, 
 jet somewhat hoping story told of all the great 
 servants of God for ages after that. Once in 
 a while we liear some such expression of pleas- 
 ant hope, mingled witii doubt and grief, as 
 David uttered over his dead boy, " I shall go 
 to him, but he will not return to me ;" but, for 
 the most part, tlie future existence with patri 
 archs and witli the God of Abraliam, seems to 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 X] 
 
 have been but very dimlj seen, through clouds 
 and gloom, if seen indeed at all. A local liabi- 
 tatiou for eternity does not appear to have 
 been within the scope of the Jewish tlieology. 
 It seems to me certain that the old Egyp- 
 tians did believe in the resurrection of°the 
 dead, and expected to rise from their tombs 
 and inliabit again the land of their birth. 
 They built tlie grand halls of Karnak, of Medi- 
 net Abou, of Esne, of Edfou, and hewed out the 
 solemn chambers of Abou Simbal, witii refer- 
 ence to tliat future day, when they should 
 unroll the spicy bands and step forth from their 
 rock-hewn tombs on the Tlieban hill-sides. If 
 any of them remain, undisturbed by treasure- 
 seekers of later ages, until the resurrection, 
 the awakening will, perhaps, be not altogether 
 unlike what they expected, though the' judge 
 Tvill not be Osiris, nor the book of His judg- 
 ment the pages of Hermes. And it cannot be 
 forgotten that the mournful direction of Joseph 
 for the presei'vation and final burial of his 
 bones, was not coupled with any intimation 
 that he should ever need to reclaim his clay, 
 or that from ids fatlier's teaching, or his Eo^vn-' 
 
zu 
 
 THE XEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 tian lore, he had received any idea of the 
 resurrection or even of immortality. 
 
 It is no part of our purpose to discuss how 
 far the Hebrews or the other nations did 
 understand tlie doctrine of the resurrection of 
 the dead and tlie immortality of tlie soul. 
 That it was held, in one or another form, by 
 all who had made any advance in civiliza- 
 tion, cannot be doubted. But it seems to have 
 been everywhere regarded as an almost im- 
 penetrable mystery, and the visitors, whom the 
 imaginations of the old poets sent to the land 
 of shades, brouglit back little information of 
 the future state of the dead, and tliat little 
 enveloped in profound sadness. That some 
 such belief was held by wise men of the 
 Jewish Church cannot be denied, but we seek 
 vainlv for the indications of its power on their 
 lives, or its consoling assurances at the mo- 
 ment of death. 
 
 The Mohammedans have traditions which 
 they believe to be of very remote origin, and, 
 if we should accept their antiquity, they 
 might be lield to prove that in tlie age of the 
 patriarchs, men believed in a future Paiiulise 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Xlll 
 
 not unlike that described by the Fathers of the 
 Christian Church. But there is no evidence 
 of the ancient origin of these traditions. 
 
 One of them is so rich in imagery that I 
 cannot forbear quoting it here, as part of the 
 history of man's belief in the New Jerusalem. 
 I condense it from " An Essay towards the His- 
 tory of Arabia," etc., by Major David Price 
 London, 1824. Shedaud is supposed, by Mo- 
 hammedan authorities, to have reigned in tlie 
 Eastern country before the time of Abraham, 
 and tlie Prophet Houd has been thought to 
 be identical witli Heber : 
 
 When, as on frequent occasions he had done 
 with his brother, the prophet warned him with 
 urgent zeal to forsake the absurdities of image 
 worship, and to adore the majesty of the true 
 God, Shedaud demanded to know what it was 
 that he might expect in compensation from the 
 God whom he proclaimed, provided he sliould 
 be disposed to yield to these importunities. 
 Houd rephed that the meed of his obedience 
 woukl be a paradise of interminable felicity; 
 but proceeding to enumerate some of the bless- 
 ings of such a glorious state, the monarch cut 
 2 
 
XIV 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 W 
 
 him short by an affirmation, that he would liim- 
 self undertake to produce, even on earth, such 
 a paradise as that which he was attempting 
 to describe ; and as a proof that \\q was in ear- 
 nest, he instantly set about providingthe means 
 of accomplishing the object of his impious boast. 
 In order, however, to the execution of liis 
 presumptuous plan, which extended to nothing 
 less than the creation on earth of an abode of 
 bliss and sj»lendour, which was to rival the man- 
 sions of eternal glory, Shedaud now dispatched 
 letters to his puissant kinsman, desiring that he 
 would, with all diligence, collect for his use, 
 Avhether belonging to himself or the officers 
 under his authority, all that was rare and costly 
 in gold and silver, in pearl and precious stones 
 of every colour and price, in musk and camphor, 
 and ambergris, and every species of scarce and 
 fra'^nant drui:c- Ilis own subjects were employed, 
 at the same time, to explore the ocean for its 
 exhaustless riches, and in particular for pearl ; 
 while the officers of his government were di- 
 rected to hasten from all quarters, to aid in the 
 prosecution of the design. From among his 
 vezzeirs, or ministers of state, he next selected 
 sixteen individuals distinguished for taste and 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 XV 
 
 discrimination, whom he sent to make a survey 
 of his dominions ; in order to fix upon that spot 
 which, for amenity of climate and other advan- 
 tages, might appear best suited for the reception 
 of the fairy abode which he had in contempla- 
 tion. 
 
 After considerable research, the choice of these 
 personages ai)pears to have fallen on some place 
 in the territory of Syria; where the assembled 
 architects proceeded with the requisite dispatch, 
 and, with bricks of gold and silver alternately 
 disi)osed, to lay the foundations of this superb 
 structure. Of these costly materials were the 
 walls entirely composed ; the roof being, Jiow- 
 ever, of gold alone, inlaid with precious^ stones 
 and pearl, and supported on pillars of crystal ;. 
 the rubies, sapphire, emeralds, and topaz being^ 
 so firmly and skillfully inserted in the walls and 
 roofs, and other parts of the structure, as to be 
 immovable by the hand of man.* On the banks 
 of an artificial rivulet were also erected munzers, 
 or light pavilions, belvederes perhaps, of gold 
 and silver, surrounded by trees and shrubs of 
 the same precious metals, the fruit and flowers 
 of which were of rubies and pearl ; and on the 
 trees were perched birds of similar metals, the 
 
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 XVI 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 hollow parts of which were loaded with every 
 species of the richest perfume, so that every 
 breeze that blew came charged with fragrance, 
 conveyed from the bills of these metallic birds. 
 The bed of the rivulet, instead of gravel, Avas 
 strewed with pearl and rubies ; and, instead of 
 the usual herbage, the border was fringed with 
 saffron ; the very soil also being composed of 
 musk and amberorris. The principal structure 
 Avas surmounted, moreover, by tAvelve thousand 
 battlements, perhaps pinnacles, of gold and sil- 
 ver, so gloriously inlaid with precious stones, as 
 to reflect a lustre too intense for the eyes of the 
 beholder, when blazing with the rays of the sun. 
 And last of all, in order to accommodate the 
 two hundred vezziers who administered the 
 affairs of government under his authority, She- 
 daud, as a suitable enclosure to the principal 
 fabric, caused an equal number of kosheks, 
 kiofiks, or smaller palaces, also of silver and 
 gold, to be erected on the circumference.; so 
 that the treasures of the whole earth, and all 
 that it could produce of beautiful and rare, seem 
 to have been exhausted in the execution of this 
 superb and matchless design. 
 
 When, however, intelligence was conveyed to 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 xvii 
 
 Shedaud m Hadhramonat, where it appear, that 
 he then resided, that the sumptuous work was 
 complete, the monarch immediately arose ; and 
 accompanied by his whole court, consisting, of 
 the two hundred ministers aheady mentiono-d, a 
 thousand great con.manders, and a superb ret- 
 inue of thirty thousand g„a,ds, proceeded on 
 his way ,0 take possession of this splendid abode. 
 J>ut, w.tlnn one short stage of his object, hi. 
 attention was suddenly arrested while on the 
 ».arch by the appearance of a stag, the body of 
 which seemed of silver, the haunches of gold 
 the eyes of rubies, and the feet of marble I„' 
 short U was a creature of such exquisite beauty, 
 that las eyes had never beheld any thine, to be 
 eon,pared to it before. Spurring his horsl, She- 
 daud eagerly put himself in pursuit of this beau- 
 t.fu vKs,on, which he followed until he was en- 
 tn-ely out of sight of his attendants. At that 
 moment the object of his pursuit suddenly dis- 
 appeared, and in its stead he observed a person- 
 age on horseback approaching to meet him, by 
 whom he was shortly afterwards accosted in the 
 folio wmg terms: « Wretched slave - in the situ- 
 ation to which thou art brought, on what art 
 thou tlnnkn,g, or what is it thou art in pursuit 
 
XVlll 
 
 THE XEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 THE XEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 XIX 
 
 of? By tlie object on which thy mind is now 
 eno-a"-eil, or by the labours and speculations of 
 the past, dost thou imagine thyself secured 
 iiirainst the stroke of death?" Suri)rised at 
 such an expostulation, from one whose api)ear. 
 ance at this moment bespoke nothing otherwise 
 extraordinary, the monarch demanded who he 
 was, and what he sought for? And his aston- 
 ishment was not abated when the stranger an- 
 nounced himself as " the Angel of Death !" and 
 more appalling still, that he was come to de- 
 mand his soul from him. Shedaud now endeav- 
 oured to expostulate, and to adjure him to be- 
 ware of interfering with his life, at least before 
 he liad cast one anxious look on the splendid 
 fabric which had been raised at the expense of 
 such prodigious treasures. The stranger in- 
 formed him, however, that there was not a mo- 
 ment to spare, and desiring him to cast his eyes 
 behind him, he no sooner complied than the 
 dread messenger presented himself to his view, 
 arraved in all the terrors of his character. She- 
 daud, as if stricken by a thunderbolt, dropped 
 from his horse in a swoon, and instantly expired ; 
 and his whole retinue reaching the spot shortly 
 afterwards, a fearful sound was heard from 
 
 heaven, at which the very life-spark within their 
 bodies was at once extinguished for ever; and, 
 of all this host, not an individual escaped to 
 feast his eyes on the golden paradise, erected, 
 in the presumption of human vanity, for his 
 wonder and admiration. 
 
 To sum up the marvellous of this fanciful 
 
 tradition, w^e shall venture to relate further, 
 from the Rouzut-us-suffii, that when, through 
 some channel or other, the Angel of Death was 
 asked whether, in the discharge of his inexor- 
 able commission towards the souls of men, no 
 instance had ever occurred in which some feel- 
 ing of compassion had been excited towards tlie 
 miserable victims of his power ; he is reported 
 to have said, that in two instances onlv his com- 
 passion had been so awakened : once towards 
 an infant born at sea, and the bark in which it 
 had seen the light perished in a storm at the 
 moment of its birth, leaving the helpless inno- 
 cent on a bare plank to struggle for existence 
 with the winds and waves. The other instance 
 was, when, in the midst of liis thoughtless career, 
 and at the moment when almost in view of the 
 glorious fabric which he had erected at the ex- 
 pense of so much time and treasure, he was em- 
 
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 THE NEW JERUSALE.U. 
 
 ployed to fulfill the manclate of Omnipotence 
 acrainst tlio iinliappy Shodaud, and to cut him 
 oft* without a single glance of the eye at the 
 object of his pride and ambition. Azraeil had 
 thus spoken, when a voice from heaven was 
 heard to deelare, that the same infont whom he 
 had seen perishing on a plank amidst the billows 
 of the storm, was no other than Shedaud him- 
 self; whom, after having rescued from the perils 
 of the ocean, a gracious providence had success- 
 ively elevated to wealth and splendour, and to a 
 degree of i)ower far beyond his coevals. Xever- 
 theless, forgetting the hand from which he liad 
 received these transcendent blessings, he became 
 a rebel towards his 3Iaker ; and hence, in pun- 
 ishment of his audacious impiety and arrogance, 
 he was overtaken, in the end, by the just judg- 
 ment of God. 
 
 It is impossible to place confidence in the 
 great antiquity of this tradition. On the con- 
 trary, it seems to bear unmistakable evidence 
 of a late origin, and even of indebtedness to 
 Christian writings for much of its scenery. I 
 cannot place its production at a much earlier 
 period than that of Mohammed hiir.self, and the 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM, 
 
 XXI 
 
 freedom with which he used the sacred WTitings 
 may fully account for this, and otiier legends 
 of Islam. 
 
 We are left to marvel at the silence of Holy 
 Writ and the darkness in which the chosen 
 people of God rested for so many centuries, on 
 this subject of profoundest interest to man. It 
 is no part of my object now to discuss how much 
 they did know of it. We know that they differed 
 about the resurrection of the dead, and doubt- 
 less some of those who believed in the resur- 
 rection believed also in some sort of local 
 habitation for the immortals, while others held 
 Pantheistic ideas. But the sacred books were 
 almost silent on the subject. 
 
 The coming of Christ brought " life and im- 
 mortality to light." Now the Sacred Scriptures 
 begin to abound in promises of the future irlorv 
 reserved for His servants. Tlie pages of the 
 Gospels are full of them. The eyes of the dis- 
 ciples w^ere however not fully opened. Leading 
 them with Him, pouring out the treasures of 
 Divine wisdom on their ever astonished minds, 
 He contented himself and them with such 
 simple statements as, "In my Father's house are 
 
xxn 
 
 TUB ^''EW JERUSALEM. 
 
 many mansions," and the sublime promise, " 1 
 go to prepare a place for you." Still they did 
 not seem to appreciate the inheritance He prom- 
 ised them. It ^vas therefore with dim eves 
 that they looked up from the Mount of Olives 
 to the cloud that had received Him departino-, 
 understanding but little more than did Abraliam 
 on Moriah of old, or David on Zion, where ' 
 could be the place of His abode, or the home 
 to which He had bidden them. But He had 
 promised a Spirit to " teach them all thino-s" 
 and bring to their remembrance all that He 
 had said to tliem. It was imder the guidance 
 of that Spirit that the Apostles published in 
 all parts of the world the assurances of ever- 
 lasting life, and that life in the Xew Jerusalem, 
 the city of God. Tiie vision of immortality 
 burst on their eyes with a radiance which could 
 scarcely be comprehended ; and it is somewhat 
 remarkable that none of the xVpostles, not even 
 Paul himself, seemed to reach that perfect re- 
 alization of the glory of the future world which 
 the Spirit gave to the beloved disciple, John, 
 who lingering last of all the twelve, exiled on 
 Patmos, waiting and praying for the coming of 
 
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 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 XXllI 
 
 his Lord, beheld with clear vision the ineffable 
 glory of the New Jerusalem. 
 ^ The origin of the hymn which is here pub- 
 lished is of course in the Apocalypse. This 
 needs no elucidation. Many of its very words 
 and phrases may be traced directly to that 
 source. 
 
 It would seem as if the Fathers of the Church 
 received from John the spirit of rejoicing when 
 they looked to the future life. They preached 
 and wrote in tlie most exulting manner, cele- 
 brating the glories of the New City. The 
 whole character of religious writing, preaching, 
 and teaching, felt the cfiange and gave evidenc'e' 
 of the new inspiration. One and another broke 
 forth into strains of rapturous description of 
 its beauty and majesty. Augustine, more, per- 
 haps than any otlier, seems to have been filled 
 witli a holy fire when lie spoke of eternal glory 
 and blessedness. 
 
 There is in all his works more or less of the 
 evidence that his eyes were constantly fixed on 
 the glories of the Celestial City, and the un- 
 affected but impassioned style in which he ex- 
 pressed his longings for the joys it contains, 
 
XXIV 
 
 THE NEW JERVSALhWr. 
 
 seems to have given to our liymn some of its 
 most eloquent passages. 
 Thus lie wrote : 
 
 O civitas sancta, civitas speciosa, de longinquo 
 te sahito, ad te clamo, te require. Desidero enini 
 videre te et requiescere in te, sed non sinor, 
 carne retentus. 
 
 The reader will not fail to note in the hvmn 
 of Hildebert in the Appendix the reproduction 
 of some of these words of Augustine : 
 
 Urbs in porta satis tuto 
 Be longinquo te saluto, 
 Tesahito, te suspiro, 
 Tv? aftecto, te require. 
 
 And in the hymn of Bernard de Clugnj, also 
 in the Appendix, will be found indications of 
 his nimiliaritj with, and inspiration drawn 
 from tlie Afiican Father. As thus : 
 
 ITrbs Sion inclyta turris et edita littore tuto 
 Te peto, te colo, te ilagro, te volo, eanto, saluto. 
 
 Very many instances of this kind might be 
 given, showing the genealogy of our hymn, for 
 
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 the same inspiration breathes through its lines, 
 inherited tlirough many generations of sacred 
 poems from tlic Fathers and the Apocalypse of 
 John. A favourite method with Augustine of 
 exalting the glory, and peace, and beauty, of 
 tlie Xew Jerusalem was by a series of strong 
 phrases and comparisons, or contrasts, which 
 are also characteristic of some portions of our 
 hymn. One or two examples will suffice : 
 
 Absolomis formositas esset in eterna gloria 
 deformitas. Asaelis agilitas esset ibi pigra tar- 
 ditas. Samsonis fortitude foret ibi debilitatis - 
 invalitude. Meysi sanitas ibi esset infirmitas. 
 Augusti Caisaris libertas esset in gloria eaptivi- 
 tas. Assueri regis delici.-e essent ibi miseria3. 
 Salomonis sapientia ibi esset insipientia. David 
 et Jonathan amicitine ibi essent inimicitia3. Alex- 
 andri magni ampla pompa3 potentia ibi esset an- 
 gusta custedia. Joseph in Egipto honoris et 
 gloria? sublimitas esset ibi dedecus et vilitas. 
 Enoch et Helye vita3 securitas esset ibi timeris 
 anxietas. 
 
 And again : 
 
 O vita vitalis, dulcis et amabilis, et semper me 
 
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 morialis! Ubi non est hostis inipurrnans, ubi 
 siiniina et ccrta secnritas, et sccura 
 tranquilitas. et tranquilla jocunditas, et jocniula 
 felicitas, et felix etcrnitas, et eteriia beatudo ! 
 
 Gregory affords us other examples of tlie elo- 
 quent stylo in wliicli many of the Fathers gave 
 utterance to the highest Iioi,es and most extUted 
 anticipations, by the use of forcible repetitions 
 and alliterations. Thus he said : 
 
 Gloria qure nobis proniittitur mulfa est, magna 
 est, preciosa est, diuturna est; tam iniilta ''est 
 que non potest nunierari; tarn magna est que 
 non potest ap],rehendi; tam preciosa est que non 
 potest estirnari; tam diuturna est que non potest 
 finiri. 
 
 And again, in a passage which is evidently 
 the forerunner, if not the original, of some of 
 the words of our hymn : 
 
 Ibi erit pax sine discordia, voluntas sine iuju- 
 ria,justicia sine mandato, juventns sine senec 
 tute, decor sine deformitate, vita siue morte 
 letitui sine conturbatione. Ibi carmina non de- 
 sunt, proemia non deficiunt, amici non moriim- 
 
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 XXVJl 
 
 tur; ibi q„icqui,l nmabiuu- aderit : nee desidera- 
 bitur quod non dccueiit. 
 
 The indebtedness of our In inn of the New 
 Jornsalom to Gregory is probably greater and 
 more nnniediate than to any other of thePathers 
 While brief extracts, thoughts, and expressions 
 seem to Iiave been gatliered from time to time 
 out of diffwent sources and brought togetlier 
 in this old song, we find almost literal trans- 
 lations from Gregory, leaving no doubt of the 
 direct transfer of passages. In the twentieth 
 and twenty-first stanzas of the livmn, we find a 
 condensed translation of the following passage 
 111 one of the Homilies of Gregory : 
 
 Ibi angelorura chori, ibi societas supernorum 
 c.vium, ibi dnicis solemnitas a peregrinationis 
 liujKs tnsti labore redeuntium: ibi providi pro- 
 phetarum chori : ibi in.Iex apostolorum nume- 
 nis : ibi innumerabilium martyrium victor exer- 
 citus, tanto illic letior quanto d«rior hie afflictus • 
 ibi confcssorura sciorum constantia pramii sui 
 perceptione consolata : ibi fideles viri quos a viri- 
 itate suo robore volu,)tas seculi non potuit emol- 
 lire: ibi sanct* niulieres qua, cum seculo etiam 
 
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 sexnm vicernnt ; ibi pueri sui qui hie annos snos 
 moribtis snis transcenderunt ; ibi senes qiios hie 
 iEtas (lebiles reddidit, et tamen virtus opis non 
 reliqnit. 
 
 These extracts must suffice for our purpose 
 to sliow tlie ancestry of our hymn. We might 
 go furtlier and trace the genealogy, word by 
 word and line by line, of a very large portion 
 of it, through writers in successive centuries 
 and ages of the Church. But ratlier than 
 weary the reader with such a work, we have 
 preferred to reproduce in this little volume 
 some of the medieval hymns in which the 
 family blood and spirit may be found. The 
 hynui of Hildebert, and the great song of 
 Bernard, the monk of Clugny, are among the 
 most notable of these ; but while we present 
 the former entire, we have selected only a few 
 lines as specimens of the three thousand which 
 Bernard wrote On the Contempt of the 
 World. In every age the voice of tlie Chris- 
 tian Church has found its sublimest utterai oes 
 in aspirations like these. As the Latin was 
 the language of all the Church during many 
 
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 centuries, it is not remarkable that the number 
 of Latin hymns of this kind should be lar<^e. 
 There are, in foct, many hundred specially re- 
 ferring to this subject, out of manv thousand 
 winch remain to us from the i.iety of the Mid- 
 dle Ages. A mere glance at the hymns of 
 Hildebert, of Bernard, and of Peter Damian 
 will show to the reader the source from which 
 many portions of our hymn have been trans- 
 ferred to the English. 
 
 It can hardly be disputed that the hymn, 
 " Oh Mother Dear, Jerusalem," is entitled to' 
 tiiat high position, from its lineage and ori-in 
 winch we have assigned to it, and that'no' 
 other hymn or ])oem in the language, except 
 dii'cct paraphrases of inspired writin-s, can 
 show such noble origin, or a gathering together 
 m one line of so much ancestral glory. 
 
 There has been no little discussion and dif- 
 ference of opinion as to tlie origin of the hvmn 
 in our own language. I„ this, however, we are 
 spared the labour of investigation, since its his- 
 tory has already been compiled with great care 
 and ability by another and more able hand. 
 I was riding one morning, not many years 
 
XXX 
 
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 ago, over the hills on the north of Jerusalem, 
 in company with several friends, and as our 
 liorses picked their dangerous way in single 
 flic up to the rocky crest of a mountain ridge, 
 1 broke out in loud voice chaunting the words 
 of this old hymn. Immediately behind me 
 rode a gentleman widely known and loved in 
 the Christian world, Rev. Horatius Bonar, D.D., 
 the pastor at Kelso in Scotland, an accom- 
 plished scholar, and a poet especially fond of 
 views, distant, but always clear and joyous, of 
 the New Jerusalem. Hearing my song, he at 
 once rode up, and in the conversation which 
 ensued, gave us a store of interesting informa- 
 tion about it, and at length it appeared that 
 lie had written and printed a monograph on 
 the subject. This little book, almost unknown 
 to the American reader, but which ought to be 
 everywhere read, was published in Edinburgh 
 in 1852, and contains a valuable and thorou<>-h 
 history of our hymn, with ])arallel hymns, and 
 much learned and appreciative comment by 
 Dr. Bonar. I may be pardoned for these per- 
 sonal allusions to our meeting, when I add that 
 the volume now presented to the public was 
 
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 XXXI 
 
 prepared only as a private memorial of that 
 pleasant morning in Palestine, and was not in- 
 tended for publication until the demand for it, 
 outside of the immediate circle for whom it 
 was designed, seemed to indicate that it would 
 be acceptable to other readers, and would do 
 some good. If Dr. Bonar's book were acces 
 sible to American readers, I sliould have been 
 very far from attempting this edition. 
 
 The authorship of the hymn in English has 
 been commonly attributed to David Dickson, a 
 Scotch clergyman of the Seventeenth Century. 
 A careful examination of tlie authorities, as 
 well those cited by Dr. Bonar as others, 
 leads to the conviction that we are indebted 
 to Dickson for the present form of the hymn, 
 and probably for a considerable portion of the 
 verses. It seems not unlikely that the transla- " 
 tion from Gregory, to which we have directed 
 attention, was his work. But portions of the 
 hymn had earlier existence in our lan""uai>*e. 
 Dr. Bonar found a manuscript volume in the 
 British Museum containing a portion of the 
 hymn, under the title, " A Song, by F. B. P., to 
 the Tune of Diana ;" and from his examination it 
 
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 xxx'iii 
 
 is manifest that tliis song (which will be found 
 in the Appendix) is of earlier origin than the 
 time of Dickson, wlio was born about A. D. 1583, 
 and died in a. D. 1662. It seems probable, on 
 a critical examination of the livmn, that it has 
 received contributions from various hands, ad- 
 ditions, which are mostly translations from the 
 Fathers or from mediaeval Latin hymns, liaving 
 been made by one and another author. So 
 entirely diverse is the style of different stanzas 
 that this tlieory alone can explain it, and it is 
 possible that David Dickson only put into shape 
 and polished a little the work of his devout 
 predecessors. This, however, is certain, that 
 to the noble Church of Scotland we owe this 
 hymn in its present state. Like very much 
 more of our devotional poetry, it has come 
 from the land of martvrs and faithful men, 
 bearing the evidence of its passage through 
 that country in many quaint and not ineloquent 
 words and plirases. In the present edition, we 
 have followed quite closely Dr. Bonar^s copy, 
 which he reprinted from an old broadside, but 
 in some instances we have corrected the read- 
 ings, from other ancient copies, where such 
 
 i 
 
 changes seemed manifestly proper. The ver- 
 ."ions which exist are so many, that a volume 
 would not contain tliem. We have, however, 
 given a few of these in the Appendix, by w^ay 
 of exhibiting the use to which the hymn has 
 been put in the modern €hurches. 
 
 Its words, in one or another form, have been 
 tlie burden of many exultanf voices in many 
 ages, ages in which men have experienced in 
 flood and flame the truth of tlie words of Leo, 
 "Non cantilemis et gaudiis, sed suspiriis et 
 lachrymis ad veram beatudinem pervenitur." 
 The dim vision of the Hebrew prophet of old 
 changed to the rapt glory of John^s inspired 
 sight J and after that tlie faith of the Church, 
 for age after age, found utterance in these 
 words of hope. The noblest of our sacred 
 songs in its origin, its genealogy, and its sub- 
 ject, it will undoubtedly continue to be dear to 
 the lips of those who are " returning from the 
 sad labour of this pilgrimage," so long as the 
 I)ilgrimage continues, and no one of them will 
 liear any thing to surpass it until he shall hear 
 David, and Mary, and Ambrose sing the new 
 Rong in the New City. 
 
THE NEW JERUSALEM ; 
 
 OK, 
 
 THE SOUL^S BREATHIXG AFTER HER HEAVENLY COUXTRT. 
 
 "Since Christ's fair truth needs no man's art, 
 Take this rude song in better part." 
 
 I. 
 
 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 thee no sorrows can be found, 
 
 No grief, no care, no toil. 
 
 II. 
 
 In thee no sickness is at all, * 
 
 No hurt nor any sore ; 
 There is no death nor ugly sight. 
 
 But life for evermore. 
 No dimmish clouds o'ershadow thee, 
 
 No cloud nor darksome night; 
 But every soul shines as the sun, 
 
 For God himself gives lio-ht 
 
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 THE NEW JERUSALEM, 
 
 III. 
 
 There lust nor lucre cannot dwell, 
 
 There envy bears no sway ; 
 There is no hunger, thirst, nor heat, 
 
 But pleasure every way. 
 Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! 
 
 Would God I were in thee ! 
 Oh that my sorrows had an end, 
 
 Thy joys that I might see ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 No pains, no pangs, no grieving grief, 
 
 No woful wight is there ; 
 Ko sigh, no sob, no cry is heard — 
 
 No well-awav, no fear. 
 Jerusalem the city is 
 
 Of God our King alone ; 
 The Lamb of God the light thereof 
 
 Sits there upon His throne. 
 
 V. 
 
 Ah God ! that I Jerusalem 
 With speed may go behold ! 
 
 For why ? the pleasures there abound 
 With toncrue cannot be told. 
 
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 Thy turrets and thy pinnacles. 
 
 With carbuncles do shine. 
 With jasper, pearl, and chrysolite. 
 
 Surpassing pure and fine. 
 
 VI. 
 
 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 stones. 
 
 Thy bulwarks diamond square. 
 Thy gates are made of Orient pearl— 
 
 O God, if I were there ! 
 
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 vn. 
 
 Within thy gates no thing can come 
 That is not passing clean ; 
 
 No spider's web, no dirt, no dust. 
 No filth may there be seen. 
 
 Jehovah, Lord, now come away, 
 And end my grief and plaints ; 
 
 Take me to Thy Jerusalem, 
 
 And place me with Thy saints, 
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38 THE NEW JERUSALEM, 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Who there are crowned with glory great, 
 
 And see God face to face ; 
 They triumph still and aye rejoice — 
 
 Most happy is their case. 
 But we that are in banishment, 
 
 Continually do moan ; 
 We sigh, we mourn, we sob, we weep — 
 
 Perpetually we groan. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Our sweetness mixed is with gall, 
 
 Our pleasure is but pain. 
 Our joys not worth the looking on— 
 
 Our sorrows aye remain. 
 But there they live in such delight, 
 
 Such pleasure and such play. 
 That unto them a thousand years 
 
 Seem but as yesterday. 
 
 X. 
 
 O my sweet home, Jerusalem ! 
 
 Thy joys when shall I see ? 
 Thy King sitting upon His throne, 
 
 And thy felicity ? 
 
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 Thy vineyards and thy orchards are 
 
 So wonderful and f-iir, 
 And furnished with trees and fruit, 
 
 Most beautiful and rare. 
 
 XI. 
 
 Thy gardens and thy goodly walks, 
 
 Continually are green ; 
 There grow such sweet and pleasant flowers, 
 
 As no where else are seen. 
 There cinnamon and sucyar <rrow. 
 
 There nard and balm abound ; 
 No tongue can tell, no heart can think. 
 
 The pleasures there are found. 
 
 XII. 
 
 There nectar and ambrosie sprino- 
 
 There musk and civet sweet ; 
 There many a fair and dainty drug 
 
 Are trod down under feet. 
 Quite through the streets, with pleasant sound, 
 
 The flood of life doth flow ; 
 Upon the banks, on every side. 
 
 The trees of life do grow. 
 
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 TUE ^'EW JERUSALEM, 
 
 XIII. 
 
 These trees each month yield ripened fruit- 
 
 For evermore they spring ; 
 And all the nations of the world 
 
 To thee their honours bring. 
 Jerusalem, God's dwelling-place, 
 
 Full sore I long to see ; 
 Oh that my sorrows had an end, 
 
 That I might dwell in thee ! 
 
 XIV. 
 
 There David stands, with harp in hand, 
 
 As master of the queir ; 
 A thousand times that man were blessed 
 
 That might his music hear. 
 There Mary sings Magnificat^ 
 
 With tunes surpassing sweet ; 
 And all the virgins bear their part, 
 
 Singing about her feet. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Te Denm doth St. Ambrose sinir, 
 
 St. Austin doth the like ; 
 Old Simeon and Zacharie 
 
 Have not their songs to seek. 
 
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 There Magdalene hath left her moan, 
 And cheerfully doth sing, 
 
 With all blest saints whose harmony 
 Through every street doth ring. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! 
 
 Thy joys fain would I see ; 
 Come quickly, Lord, and end my grief. 
 
 And take me home to Thee ! 
 Oh print Thy name in my forehead, 
 
 And take me hence away, 
 That I may dwell with Thee in bliss. 
 
 And sing Thy praises aye ! 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Jerusalem, thrice happy seat ! 
 
 Jehovah's throne on high ! 
 O sacred city, queen, and wife 
 
 Of Christ eternally ! 
 O comely queen, with glory clad, 
 
 With honour and degree. 
 All fair thou art, exceedimr briirht— 
 
 No spot there is in thee. 
 
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 II 
 
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42 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 I long to see Jerusalem, 
 The comfort of us all ; 
 
 For thou art fair and beautiful — 
 None ill can thee befiill. 
 
 In thee, Jerusalem, I say, 
 No darkness dare appear ; 
 
 Ko night, no shade, no winter foul- 
 No time doth alter there. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 No candle needs, no moon to shine, 
 
 No glittering stars to light ; 
 For Christ, the King of Righteousness, 
 
 There ever shineth briirht. 
 The Lamb unspotted, white and pure, 
 
 To thee doth stand in lieu 
 Of light — so great the glory is 
 
 Thine heavenly King to view. 
 
 XX. • 
 
 He is the King of kings, beset 
 In midst His servants' sisrht : 
 
 And they. His happy household all 
 Do serve Him day and night. 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 There, there the queir of angels sing ; 
 
 There the supernal sort 
 Of citizens, which hence are rid 
 
 From dangers deep, do sport. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 There be the prudent prophets all, 
 
 The apostles six and six, 
 The glorious martyrs in a row, 
 
 And confessors betwixt. 
 There doth the crew of righteous men 
 
 And matrons all consist ; 
 Young men and maids that here on earth 
 
 Their pleasures did resist. 
 
 XXII. 
 
 The sheep and lambs that hardly 'scaped 
 
 The snares of death and hell, 
 Triumph in joy eternally, 
 
 Whereof no tongue can tell ; 
 And though the glory of each one 
 
 Doth differ in degree, 
 Yet is the joy of all alike 
 
 And common, as we see. 
 
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 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 xxm. 
 
 Tliere love and charity do reign, 
 
 And Christ is all in all, 
 Whom they most perfectly behold 
 
 In joy celestial. 
 They love, they praise — they praise, they love ; 
 
 They " holy, holy," cry ; 
 They neither toil, nor faint, nor end. 
 
 But laud continually. 
 
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 XXIV. 
 
 Oh happy thousand times were I, 
 
 If, after wretched days, 
 I might with listening ears conceive 
 
 Those heavenly songs of praise. 
 Which to the eternal Kinor are suncr 
 
 By happy wights above — 
 By saved souls and angels sweet, 
 
 Who love the God of Love ! 
 
 XXV. 
 
 Oh passing happy w^re my state. 
 Might I be worthy found 
 
 To wait upon my God and King, 
 His praises there to sound ; 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 And to enjoy my Christ above, 
 His favour and His grace. 
 
 According to His promise made, 
 Which here I interlace. 
 
 45 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 " Father dear," quoth He, " let them 
 
 Which Thou hast put of old 
 To me, be there where, lo, I am. 
 
 Thy glory to behold ; 
 Which I with Thee before the world 
 
 Was made, in perfect wise. 
 Have had ; from whence the fountain great 
 
 Of glory doth arise." 
 
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 XXVII. 
 
 Again : " If any man will serve 
 
 Then let him follow me ; 
 For w-here I am, be thou, right sure, 
 
 There shall my servant be." 
 And still : " If any man love me. 
 
 Him loves my Father dear ; 
 Whom I do love, to him mvself 
 
 In glory will appear." 
 
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 THE NEW JERUSALEM, 
 
 XXYIII. 
 
 Lord, take away my misery, 
 
 That there I may behold 
 Witli Thee in Thy Jerusalem, 
 
 What here cannot be told. 
 And so in Zion see my King, 
 
 My Love, my Lord, my All ; 
 Whom now as in a glass I see, 
 
 There face to face I shall. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 Oh ! blessed are the pure in heart, 
 
 Their Sovereign they shall see ; 
 And the most holy heavenly host. 
 
 Who of ITis household be ! 
 O Lord, with speed dissolve my bands, 
 
 These gins and fetters strong : 
 For I have dwelt within the tents 
 
 Of Kedar overlonff ! 
 
 XXX. 
 
 Yet search me, Lord, and find me out. 
 
 Fetch me Thy fold unto. 
 That all Thy angels may rejoice, 
 
 While all Thy will I do. 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 O mother dear, Jerusalem ! 
 
 When shall I come to thee ? 
 When shall my sorrows have an end- 
 
 Thy joys when shall I see ? 
 
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 » XXXI. 
 
 Yet once again I pray Thee, Lord, 
 
 To quit me from all strife. 
 That to thine hill I may attain, 
 
 And dwell there all my life. 
 With chenibims and seraphims 
 
 And holy souls of men. 
 To sing Thy praise, O God of Hosts ! 
 
 For ever, and Amen ! 
 

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 APPENDIX. 
 
 HYMN OF H I L D E B E R T . 
 ORATIO DEVOTISSIMA 
 
 AD TRES PEESONAS SANCTISSIM^ TRINITATI8. 
 
 [hildebert was bishop of mans and archbishop op tours 
 
 IN THE EARLY PART OP THE TWELFTH CENTORr.l 
 
 AD PATREM. 
 
 Alpha et fl, magne Deus ! 
 Eli ! Eli ! Deus meus, — 
 Cujus virtus, totum posse ; 
 Cujus sensus, totum nosse ; 
 Cujus esse, summuni bonum ; 
 Cujus opus, quicquid bonum. 
 
 Super cuncta, subter cuncta ; 
 Extra cuncta, intra cuncta. 
 
 Intra cuncta, nee inclusus ; 
 Extra cuncta, nee exclusus ; 
 Super cuncta, nee elatus , 
 Subter cuncta, nee substratus. 
 
 Super totus, prgesidendo ; 
 Subter totus, sustinendo ; 
 
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 ' THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Extra totus, complectendo ; 
 Intra totns es iinplcndo. 
 
 Intra, nunquain coarctaris; 
 Extra, nunquam dilataris; 
 Super, niillo sustentaris ; 
 Subter, nullo fatigaris. 
 
 Mundum movens, non moveris ; 
 Locum tenens, non teneris ; 
 Tempus mutans, non nuitaris ; 
 Vaga firmans, non vagaris. 
 Vis externa, vel nccesse, 
 Non altemat tuum esse. 
 
 Heri nostrum, eras et pridem, 
 Semper tibi nunc et idem. 
 Tuum, Deus, hodiernum 
 Tndivisum, sempiternuni ; 
 In hoc, totum prnevidisti, 
 Totum simul perfecisti 
 Ad exemplar sumnue mentis, 
 Formam priestans dementis. 
 
 AD FILIUM. 
 
 Nate, Patri coa?qualis, 
 Patri consubstantialis, 
 Patris si)lendor, et figura, 
 Factor factus crealura, 
 Camem nostram induisti, 
 Causam nostram suscepisti. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Sempiternus, temporalis ; 
 
 Moriturus, immortalis ; 
 
 Verus homo, verus Deus ; 
 
 Impermixtus IIoiuo-Deus. 
 
 Non convcrsus hie in carnem, 
 
 Nee minutus pn.pfer carnem ; 
 
 Hie assumptus est in Deum, 
 *Nec consumptus propter Deum ; 
 
 Patri compar deitate, 
 
 Minor carnis veritate. 
 
 Deus pater tantum Dei, 
 Virgo mater est, sed Dei. 
 
 In tam nova ligatura 
 Sic utraque stat natura, 
 Ut conservet quicquid erat. 
 Facta quiddam quod non erat. 
 
 Koster iste Mediator, 
 Iste ndster legis chitor ; 
 Circumcisus, baptizatus, 
 Crucifixus, tumuhitus, 
 Obdormivit, et descendit, 
 Kesurrexit, et ascendit ; 
 Sic ad coelos elevatus, 
 Judicabit judicatus. 
 
 AD SPIRITUM. 
 Paracletus, increatus, 
 Neque factus, neque natus, 
 
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 Patri consors genitoque, 
 Si procedit ab utroque, 
 Ne sit minor potestate, 
 Nee discretus qualitate. 
 Quanti illi, tantus iste ; 
 Quales illi, talis iste ; 
 Ex quo illi, tanto iste ; 
 Semper illi, semper iste. 
 
 Pater alter, sed gignendo ; 
 Natus alter, sed nascendo ; 
 Flamen, ab his procedendo ; 
 Tres sunt unum, subsistendo. 
 Quisque trium plenus Deus ; 
 Non tres taraen dii, sed Deus 
 In hoc Deo, Deo vero, 
 Tres et unum assevero ; 
 Dans usiae [oya^a] unitatem, 
 Et personis trinitatem. 
 
 In personis, nulla prior, 
 Nulla major, nulla minor; 
 Unaquaeque semjjer ipsa, 
 Sic est constans atque fixa, 
 Ut nee in se varietur, 
 Nee in ullam transmutetur. 
 Haec est fides orthodoxa, 
 Non hie error sine noxu, 
 Sieut dico, sic et credo, 
 Nee in pravam partem cedo : 
 
 A }* PEA' BIX. 
 
 Inde venit, bone Deus, 
 Ne desperem, quamvis reus, 
 Reus mortis, non despero, 
 Sed in morte vitam quaero. 
 Quo te plaeem, nil proetendo 
 Nisi fidem quam ostendo. 
 Fidem vides,— hac imploro, 
 Leva ftiscem quo laboro ; 
 Per hoc sacrum cataplasma 
 Convalescat aegrum i^lasma. 
 
 Extra portam jam delatum, 
 Jam foetentem, tumulatum, 
 Vitta ligat, lapis urget ; 
 Sed si jubes, hie resurget. 
 Jube ! lapis revolvetur, 
 Jube ! vitta dirumpetur; — 
 Exiturus nescit moras, 
 Postquam clamas " Exi foras ' 
 
 In hoc salo, mea ratis 
 Infestatur a piratis : 
 Hinc assultus, inde fluetus; 
 Hinc et inde, mors et luctus ; 
 Sed tu, bone nauta, veni ; 
 Preme ventos, mare leni ; 
 Fac abscedant hi piratae, 
 Due ad portum, salva rate. 
 
 InfoBcunda mea ficus ; 
 Cujus ramus, ramus siccus, 
 
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 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Incidetur, incendctur, 
 
 Si promulgas quod meretur. 
 
 Sed hoc anno dimittatur, 
 
 Stercoretur, fodiatur ; 
 
 Quod si need urn respondebit,— 
 
 Flens lioe loquor,— tunc ardebit 
 Vetus host is in me furit, 
 
 Aquis mersat, flammis urit ; 
 
 Inde languens, et afflictus, 
 
 Tibi soli sum relictus. 
 
 Ut infirmus convalescat, 
 
 Ut hie hostis evaneseat, 
 
 Tu virtutem jejunandi, 
 
 Des infirmo, des orandi ; 
 
 Per hae duo, Christo teste, 
 
 Liberabor ab hac peste. 
 
 Ab hac peste solve mentem, 
 Fac devotum, poenitentem ; 
 Da timorem, quo i)rojecto, 
 De sahite nil conieeto : 
 Da fidem, spcm, caritatem ; 
 Da discretam pietatem ; 
 Da contemptum terrenorum, 
 Appetitum supernorum. 
 
 Totum, Deus, in te spero, 
 Deus, ex te totum quaero ;— 
 Tu laus mea, meum bonuni ; 
 \Iea cuncta tuum donum. 
 
 APPEXDIX. 
 
 Tu solamen in labore ; 
 Medicamen in languore ; 
 Tu in luctu mea lyra, 
 Tu lenimen es in ira ; 
 Tu in arcto liberator ; 
 Tu in lapsu relevator : 
 Metum pra?stas in provectu; 
 Spem conservas in defectu ; 
 Si quis lajdit, tu rependis ; 
 Si minatur tu defendis ; 
 Quod est anceps, tu dissolvis ; 
 Quod tegendum, tu involvis. 
 
 Tu intrare me non sinas 
 Infernales officinas, 
 Ubi moeror, ubi metus ; 
 Ubi fcetor, ubi Actus ; 
 Ubi probra deteguntur, 
 Ubi rei confunduntur, 
 Ubi tortor semper cajdens, 
 Ubi vermis semper edens ;— 
 Ubi totum hoc perenne, 
 Quia perpes mors gehenna;. 
 
 Me receptet Sion ilia, 
 Sion David, urbs tranquilla, 
 Cujus faber, auctor lucis ; ' 
 
 Cujus portae, lignum crucis 
 Cujus claves, lingua Petri ; 
 Cujus cives, semper la;ti; 
 
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58 THE NEW JERUSALEM 
 
 Cujus muri, lapis rivus ; 
 Cujos custos, Rex festivus. 
 
 In hac urbe, lux solemnis ; 
 Ver seteraum, pax perennis ; 
 In hac, odor implens caelos, 
 In hac, semper festum melos. 
 Non est ibi corruptela, 
 Non defectu", non querela, 
 Non minuti, non deformes, — 
 Omnes Christo sunt con formes. 
 
 Urbs coelestis ! urbs beata ! 
 Super i^etram collocata ; — 
 Urbs in portu satis tuto, 
 De longinquo, te salute ; — 
 ^ Te saluto, te suspiro, 
 Te affecto, te requiro. 
 Quantum tui gratulentur, 
 Quam festive conviventur ; 
 Quis affectus eos stringat, 
 Aut quae gemma muros pingat, 
 Quis chalcedon, quis jacynthus,- 
 Norunt illi qui sunt intus. 
 
 In plateis hujus urbis, 
 Sociatus i)iis turbis, 
 Cum Moyse ct Elijd 
 Pium cantem Plalleluia I 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
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 II. 
 
 LAUS PATRIAE COELESTIS. 
 
 [AN EXTRACT PROM THE HYMN OP BERNARD DE CLrcxr OV THE 
 CONTEMPT OP THIS WOELD-TVVELPTH CENTURY.] " 
 
 Hic breve vivitur, hie breve plangitur, hie breve 
 fletur; 
 
 Non breve vivere, non breve plangere retribuetur- 
 retributio ! stat brevia actio, vita perennis ; ' 
 retributio ! ecelica mansio stat lue plenis • ' 
 Quid datur ct quibus ? Ktlier egentibus 'et cruce 
 dignis, 
 
 Sidera vermibus, optima sontibus, astra malio-nis 
 Sunt mode pra3lia, postmodo pr^mia ; qualia"? plen^v 
 Plena refectio, nullaque passio, nullaque poena 
 Spe mode, vivitur, et Syon angitur a Babylone • 
 Nunc tribulatio ; tunc recreatio, sceptra, coronle • 
 Tunc nova gloria pectora sobria clarificabit, 
 Solvet enigmata, veraque sabbata continuabit 
 Liber et hostibus, et dominantibus ibit Heimieus- 
 Liber habebitur et celebrabitur hinc jubila3us 
 Patria luminis, inscia turbinis, inscia litis, 
 Cive replelntur, amplificabitur IsraOlitis ; ' 
 Patria splendida, terraque florida, libera' spinis 
 Danda fidelibus est ibi civibus, hie pere-rinis ' 
 
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 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Tunc erit omnibus inspicientibus ora Tonantis 
 Summa potentia, plena scientia, pax pia Sanctis ; 
 Pax sine crimine, pax sine turbine, pax sine rixa, 
 Meta laboribus, atque tumultibus ancliora fixa. 
 Pars mea Kex mens, in proprio Deus ipse dccore 
 Visus amabitur, atque videbitur Auctor in ore. 
 Tunc Jacob Israel, et Lia tunc Rachel efficietur, 
 Tunc Syon atria pulcraque patria perficictur. 
 
 O bona Patria, luniina sobria te speculantur, 
 Ad tua nomina lumina sobria collacrymantur ; 
 Est tua mentio pectoris unctio, cura doloris, 
 Concipientibus aethera mentibus ignis amoris. 
 Tu locus unicus, illeque coelicus es paradisus, 
 Non ibi lacryma, sed placidissima guadia, risus. 
 Est ibi consita laurus, et insita cedrus hjsopo ; 
 Sunt radiantia jaspide mfcnia, clara pyropo : 
 Ilinc tibi sardius, inde topazius, bine anicthystus , 
 Est tua fabrica concio coelica, gemmaque Christus. 
 Tu sine littore, tu sine tempore, fons modo rivus, 
 Dulce bonis sapis, estque tibi lapis undiquc vivus. 
 Est tibi laurea, dos datur aurea, sponsa decora, 
 Primaque Principis oscula suscipis, inspicis ora : 
 Candida lilia, viva monilia sunt tibi, Sponsa, 
 Agnus adest tibi, Sponsus adest tibi, lux speciosa : 
 Tota negocia, cantica dulcia dulce tonare, 
 Tam mala debita, quam bona prabita conjubilare. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Urbs Syon aurea, patrea lactea, cive decora, 
 Omne cor obruis, omnibus obstruis et cor et ora. 
 Nescio, nescio, qua? jubilatio, lux tibi qualis, 
 Quam socialia gaudia, gloria quam specialis : 
 Laude studens ea tollere, mens mea victa fatiscit : 
 O bona gloria, vincor ; in omnia laus tua vicit. 
 Sunt Syon atria conjubilantia, martyre plena, 
 Cive micantia, Principe stantia, luce serena : 
 Est ibi pascua, mitibus afflua, prcestita Sanctis, 
 Regis ibi thronus, agminis et sonus est epulantis. 
 Gens duce splendida, concio Candida vestibus albis 
 Sunt sine fletibus in Syon a3dibus, jedibus almis; 
 Sunt sine crimine, sunt sine turbine, sunt sine lite 
 In Syon ajdibus editioribus Israelite. 
 Urbs Syon inclyta, gloria de!)ita glorificandis, 
 Tu bona visibus interioribus intima pandis : ' 
 Intima lumina, mentis acumina te speculantur, 
 Pectora flammea spc modo, postca sorte lucrantur. 
 Urbs Syon unica, mansio mystica, condita cojIo, 
 Nunc tibi gaudeo, nunc mihi lugeo, tristor, anlielo • 
 Te quia corpore non queo, pectore s^pe penetro, 
 Sed caro terrea, terraque carnea, mox cado retro 
 Nemo retexere, nemoque promere sustinet ore, 
 Quo tua maenia, quo capitalia plena decore ; * 
 Opprimit omne cor ille tuus decor, o Syon, o pax, 
 Urbs sine tempore, nulla potest fore laus tiiii mendax ; 
 O sine luxibus, o sine luctibus, o sine lite 
 Splendida curia, florida patria, patria vitffi I 
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 THE KEW JEHi'SALFJf. 
 
 Frbs Syon inclyta, turris et edita littore tuto, 
 Te peto, te colo, tc flagro, te volo, canto, sal Jto ; 
 Nee mentis peto, nam mentis meto morte perirei 
 Nee retieens tego, quod mentis ego filius \rx ; 
 Vita quidem mea, vita nimis rea, mortua vita,' 
 Quippe reatibus exitialibiis obruta, trita. 
 Spe tamen ambulo, prajmia postulo speque fideque, 
 Ilia perennia postulo prajmia noete dieque. 
 -Me Pater oi>timus atque piissimus ille creavit ; 
 In lue pertulit, ex lue sustulit, a hie lavit. 
 Gratia ccclica sustinet unica totius orbis, 
 Pareere sordibus, interioribus unctio niJrbis ; 
 Diluit omnia coelica gratia, fons David undans 
 Omnia diluit, omnibus affluit, omnia mundans ; 
 O pia gratia, celsa palutia cernere prajsta, 
 Ut videam bona, festaque consona, ccelica festa. 
 O mea, spes mea, tu Syon aurea, clari<ir auro, 
 Agmine splendida, stans duee, florida i)erpcte lauro, 
 O bona patria, num tua gaudia teque videbo ? 
 O bona patria, num tua prajmia plena tenebo ? 
 I>ic mihi, flagito, verbaque reddito, dieque, videbis. 
 Spem solidam gero; remne tenensero ? die, Retinebis 
 O sacer, o pius, o ter et amplius ille beatus, 
 Cui sua pars Deus, O miser, o reus hae viduatus. 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
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 THE CELESTIAL COUNTRY. 
 
 !A TKAXSLATION OP PART OP THE HTMX OP BERX.ARD JE CLlGXy 
 BY REV. J. M. XEALE, D. D., WARDEN OP SACKVILLE COLI^OB.] 
 
 The world is very evil ; 
 
 The times are waxing late : 
 Be sober and keep vigil ; 
 
 The Judge is at the gate : 
 The Judge That comes in mercy, 
 
 The Judge That comes with micrht. 
 To terminate the evil, 
 
 To diadem the right. 
 When the just and gentle Monarch 
 
 Shall summon from the tomb, 
 Let man, the guilty, tremble, 
 
 For Man, the God, shall doom. 
 Arise, arise, good Christian, 
 
 Let right to wrong succeed ; 
 Let penitential sorrow 
 
 To heavenly gladness lead. 
 
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 64 2 HE N. ^W JERUSA LEM 
 
 To the liglit thpt liath no evening, 
 
 That knows nor moon nor sun, 
 The light so new and golden, 
 _ The light that is but one. 
 And when the Sole-Begotten 
 Shall render up once more 
 The kingdom to tlie Father 
 
 AVhose own it was before, — 
 Then glory yet unheard of 
 
 Shall shed abroad its ray, 
 Resolving all enigmas, 
 
 An endless Sabbath-day. 
 Then, then from his oppressors 
 
 The Hebrew shall go free. 
 And celebrate in triumph 
 
 The year of Jubilee; 
 And the sunlit' Land that recks not 
 
 Of tempest nor of fight. 
 Shall fold within its bosom 
 
 Each hai)i)y Israelite: 
 The Home of fadeless splendour, 
 
 Of flowers that fear no thorn, 
 Where they sliall dwell as children, 
 
 "Who here as exiles mourn. 
 Midst power that knows no limit, 
 
 And wisdom free from bound, 
 The Beatific Vision 
 
 Shall glad the Saints around : 
 
 APPEiVDIX 
 
 The peace of all the faithful, 
 
 The calm of all the blest, 
 Inviolate, unvaried, 
 
 Divinest, sweetest, best. 
 Yes, peace ! for war is needless,— 
 Yes, calm I for storm is past,— 
 And goal from finished labour, 
 And anchorage at last. 
 / That i^eace— but who may claim it ? 
 
 The guileless in their way, 
 Who keep the ranks of battle. 
 
 Who mean the thinr they say : 
 The peace that is for heaven, 
 And shall be for the earth : 
 The palace that re-echoes 
 
 With festal song and mirth ; 
 The garden, breathing spices, 
 
 The paradise on hio-h • 
 Grace beautified to glory. 
 
 Unceasing minstrelsy. 
 There nothing can be feeble. 
 
 There none can ever mourn. 
 There nothing is divided, 
 
 There nothing can be torn : 
 'T is fury, ill, and scandal, 
 
 'T is peaceless peace below ; 
 Peace, endless, strifek-ss, ageless, 
 The halls of Syon know : 
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 66 TUE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 liappy, holy portion, 
 
 Refection for the blest ; 
 True vision of true beauty, 
 
 Sweet cure of all distrest ! 
 Strive, man, to win that glory ; 
 
 Toil, man, to gain that light ; 
 Send hope before to grasp it, 
 
 Till hope be lost in sight : 
 Till Jesus gives the portion 
 
 Those blessed souls to fill, 
 The insatiate, yet satisfied, 
 
 The full, yet craving still. 
 That fulness and that cravinsr 
 
 Alike are free from pain, 
 Where thou, midst heavenly citizens, 
 
 A home like theirs shalt gain. 
 Here is the warlike trumpet ; 
 
 There, life set free from sin ; 
 When to the last Great Supper 
 
 The faithful shall come in : 
 When the heavenly net is laden, 
 
 With fishes many and great ; 
 So glorious in its fulness, 
 
 V'lt so inviolate : 
 And the perfect from the shattered. 
 
 And the falFn from them that stand. 
 And the sheep-llock from the goat-herd 
 
 Shall part on either hand : 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 And these shall pass to torment. 
 
 And those shall triumph, then ; 
 The new peculiar nation, 
 
 Blest number of blest men. 
 Jerusalem demands them : 
 
 They paid the i)rice on earth, 
 And now shall reap the harvest 
 
 In blissfulness and mirth: 
 The glorious holy people, 
 
 Who evermore relied 
 Upon their Chief and Father, 
 
 The King, the Crucified • 
 The sacred ransomed numl)er 
 
 Now bright with endless sheen, 
 Who made the Cross their watcliworJ 
 
 Of Jesus Nazarene : 
 Who, fed with heavenly nectar, 
 Where soul-like odours play, 
 Draw out the endless leisure 
 
 Of that long vernal day : 
 And through the sacred lilies, 
 
 And flowers on every side 
 The liai)py dear bought people 
 Go wandering far and wide. 
 Their breasts are filled with gladness, 
 
 Their mouths are tun'd to praise, 
 What time, now safe for ever, 
 On former sins they gaze : 
 
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 THE NEW JERUSALEM, 
 
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 The fouliT was the error. 
 
 The sadder was the fall, 
 The ampler are the praises 
 
 Of II im Who i)ardoned all. 
 Their one and only anthem, 
 
 The fulness of His love, 
 Who gives instead of torment, 
 
 Eternal joys ahove: 
 Instead of torment, «'lory ; 
 
 Instead of death, that life 
 Wherewith your happy Countrj^ 
 
 True Israelites ! is rife. 
 
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 Brief life is here our portion ; 
 
 Brief sorrow, short-lived care ; 
 The lil'e that Knows no endinir. 
 
 The tearless life, is there. 
 happy ret ri out ion ! 
 
 Short toil, eternal rest ; 
 For mortals and for sinners 
 
 A mansi(m with the blest ! 
 That we should look, poor wand'rers, 
 
 To have our home on high ! 
 That worms should seek ior (Iwellinj's 
 
 Bevond the starrv skv I 
 To all one happy guerdon 
 
 Of one Celestial grace; 
 
 APPEXDIX. 
 
 For all, for all, who mourn their fall, 
 
 Is one eternal place : 
 And martyrdom hath roses 
 
 Upon that heavenly ground : 
 And white and virgin lilies 
 For virgin-souls abound. 
 There grief is turned to pleasure; 
 
 Such i^leasure, as below 
 No human voice can utter, 
 
 No human heart can know : 
 And after fleshly scandal. 
 
 And after this world's night, 
 And after storm and wliirlwind, 
 
 Is calm, and joy, and light. 
 And now we fight the battle, 
 
 But then shall wear the crown 
 Of full and everlasting 
 
 And passionless renown : 
 And now we watch and strugo-le 
 * And now we live in hope. 
 And Syon, in her anguish, 
 
 With Babylon must cope: 
 But lie Whom now we trust in 
 
 Shall then be seen and known. 
 And they that know and see Ilim 
 
 Shall have Him for their own. 
 The miserable i)leasures 
 Of the body shall decay : 
 
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 70 THE XE I \ ' JER USA LEM. 
 
 The bland and flatterinjr stiufrcrles 
 
 Of the flesh shall pass away : 
 And none shall there be jealous ; 
 
 And none shall there contend : 
 Fraud, clamour, guile— what say I ? 
 
 All ill, all ill shall end ! 
 And there is David's Fountain, 
 
 And life in fullest glow, 
 And there the light is golden, 
 
 And milk and honey flow : 
 The light that hath no evening 
 
 The health that hath no sore, 
 The life that hath no ending 
 
 But lasteth evermore. 
 
 There Jescs shall embrace us. 
 
 There Jesus be embraced,— 
 That spirit's food and sunshine 
 
 Whence earthly love is chased. 
 Amidst the happy chorus, 
 
 A place, however low, 
 Shall shew Ilim us, and shewin<» 
 
 Shall satiate evermo. 
 By hope we struggle onward. 
 
 While here we must be fed 
 By milk, as tender infants, 
 
 i>ut there by Living Bread. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 The night was full of terror, 
 
 The morn is bright with gladness 
 The Cross becomes our harbour. 
 
 And we triumph after sadness : 
 And Jesus to His true ones 
 
 Brings trophies fair to see : 
 And Jesus shall be loved, and 
 
 Beheld in Galilee : 
 Beheld, when morn shall waken. 
 
 And shadows shall decay, 
 And each true-hearted servant 
 Shall shine as doth the day : 
 And every ear shall hear it;— 
 
 Behold thy King's array : 
 Behold thy God in beauty, 
 The Law hath past away I 
 Yes ! God my King and Portion, 
 
 In fulness of His grace, 
 We then shall see for ever, 
 
 And worship face to face. 
 Then Jacob into Israel, 
 
 From earthlier self estranged, 
 And Leah into Rachel 
 
 For ever shall be changed : 
 Then all the halls of Syon 
 
 For aye shall be complete, 
 
 And, in the Land of Beauty, 
 
 All things of beauty meet. 
 

 
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 72 THE lYEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 For thee, O dear, dear Country I 
 
 Mine eyes their vigils keep ; 
 For very love, beholding 
 
 Thy happy name, they weep : 
 The mention of thy glory 
 Is unction to the breast, 
 And medicine in sickness, 
 
 And love, and life, and rest. 
 (> one, O onely Mansion ! 
 
 () Paradise of Jov ! 
 Where tears are ever banished, 
 
 And smiles have no alloy ; 
 Beside thy living waters 
 
 All plants are, great and small, 
 The cedar of the forest, 
 
 The hyssop of the wall : 
 With jaspers glow thy bulwarks ; 
 
 Thy streets with emeralds blaze ; 
 The sardius and the topaz 
 Unite in thee their rays : 
 Thine ageless walls arc l)onded 
 
 With amethyst unpriced : 
 Thy Saints build up its fabric, 
 
 And the corner stone is Christ. 
 The Cross is all thy splendour, 
 
 The Crucified thy praise: 
 His laud and ))enediction 
 Thy ransomed people raise : 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 Jesfs, the Gem of Beauty, 
 
 True God and Man, they sing : 
 The never-failing Garden, 
 The ever-golden Ring : 
 Tlie Door, the Pledge, the Husband, 
 
 The Guardian of his Court : 
 The Day-star of Salvation, 
 The Porter and the Port. 
 Thou hast no shore, fair ocean ! 
 
 Thou hast no time, bright day ! 
 Dear fountain of refreshment 
 
 To pilgrims far away ! 
 Upon the Rock of Ages 
 
 They raise thy holy tower : 
 Thine is the victor's laurel, 
 
 And thine the golden dower : 
 Thou feePst in mystic rapture, 
 
 O Bride that know'st no guile 
 The Prince's sweetest kisses. 
 
 The Prince's loveliest smile ; 
 Unfolding lilies, bracelets 
 
 Of living pearl thine own ; 
 The Lamb is ever near thee. 
 
 The Bridegroom thine alone; 
 The Crown is He to guerdon, 
 
 The Buckler to protect. 
 And He Himself the Mansion 
 And He the Architect. 
 
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74 THE NEW JERUSALEM, 
 
 The only art thou needest, 
 
 Thanksgiving for thy lot : 
 The only joy thou seekest, 
 
 The Life where Death is not : 
 And all thine endless leisure 
 
 In sweetest accents sings, 
 The ill that was thy merit, — 
 
 The wealth that is thy King's I 
 
 Jerusalem the golden, 
 
 With milk and honey blest, 
 Beneath thy contemplation 
 
 Sink heart and voice oppressed : 
 I know not, O I know not, 
 
 What social joys are there ; 
 What radiancy of glory, 
 
 What light beyond compare ! 
 And when I fain would sing them, 
 
 My spirit fails and faints ; 
 And vainly would it image 
 
 The assembly of the Saints. 
 They stand, those halls of Syon, 
 
 Conjubilant with song, 
 And bright with many an angel, 
 
 And all the martyr throng : 
 The Prince is ever in them ; 
 
 The daylight is serene ; 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 The pastures of the Blessed 
 
 Are decked in glorious sheen. 
 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 fidit. 
 For ever and for ever 
 
 Are clad in robes of white ! 
 
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 O holy, placid harp-notes 
 Of that eternal hymn ! 
 sacred, sweet refection. 
 
 And peace of Seraphim ! 
 O thirst, for ever ardent, 
 Yet evermore content ! 
 O true peculiar vision 
 
 Of God cunctipotent ! 
 Ye know the many mansions 
 For many a glorious name, 
 And divers retributions 
 
 That divers merits claim : 
 For midst the constellations 
 
 That deck our earthly sky. 
 This star than that is brighter,^ 
 And so it is on high. 
 

 
 76 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Jerusalem the glorious ! 
 
 The glory of the Elect ! 
 O dear and future xision 
 
 That eager hearts expect : 
 Even now by faith I see thee : 
 
 Even here thy walls discern : 
 To thee my thoughts are kindled, 
 
 And strive and pant and yearn 
 Jerusalem the onely, 
 
 That look'st from heaven below 
 In thee is all my glory ; 
 
 In me is all my woe : 
 And though my body may not, 
 
 My spirit seeks thee fain, 
 Till flesh and earth return me 
 
 To earth and flesh acrain. 
 O none can tell thy bulwarks, 
 
 How gloriously they rise : 
 O none can tell thy capitals 
 
 Of beautiful device : 
 i» Thy loveliness oppresses 
 
 All human thought and heart. 
 And none, O peace, O Syou, 
 
 Can sing thee as thou art. 
 New mansion of new i)eople, 
 
 AVhom God's own love and light 
 Promote, increase, make holy, 
 
 Identify, unite. 
 
 APPEXDIX. 
 
 Thou City of the Angels ! 
 Thou City of the Lohh! 
 Whose everlasting music 
 
 Is the glorious decachfrd ! 
 And there the band of Propliets 
 
 United 2>raise ascribes. 
 And there the twelvefold chorus 
 
 Of Israel's ransomed tribes : 
 The lilv-beds of virfjins. 
 
 The roses' martyr-glow, 
 The cohort of the Fathers 
 
 Who kept the faith below. 
 And there the Sole-Besfotten 
 
 Is Lord in regal state ; 
 He, Judah's mystic Lion, 
 
 He, Lamb Immaculate. 
 fields til ir know no sorrow ! 
 
 O state that fears no strife ! 
 O princely iM)w'rs ! O land of flow'rs I 
 
 O real in and home of life I 
 
 Jerusalem, ixulting 
 On that securest shore, 
 
 I ho2)e thee, wish thee, sing thee. 
 And love thee evermore I 
 
 I ask not for my merit : 
 I seek not to deny 
 
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 78 THE NEW JER USALEM, 
 
 My merit is destruction, 
 
 A child of wrath am I : 
 But yet with Faith I venture 
 
 And Hope upon my way ; 
 For those perennial guerdons 
 
 I labour night and day. 
 The Best and Dearest Father 
 
 Who made me and Who saved, 
 Bore with me in defilement, 
 
 And from defilement laved : 
 When in His strength I strufrsflc. 
 
 For very joy I leap, 
 When in my sin I totter, 
 
 I weep, or trj- to weep : 
 And grace, sweet grace celestial, 
 
 Shall all its love display, 
 And David's Royal Fountain 
 
 Purge every sin away. 
 
 mine, my golden Syon ! 
 
 O lovelier far than gold I 
 With laurel-girt battalions, 
 
 And safe victorious fold : 
 O sweet and blessed Country, 
 
 Shall I ever see thy face ? 
 O sweet and blessed Country, 
 
 Shall I ever win thy grace ? 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 I have the hope within me 
 To comfort and to bless ! 
 
 Shall I ever win the prize itself? 
 O tell me, tell me. Yes I 
 
 Exult, dust and ashes I 
 
 The Lord shall be thy part : 
 His only. His for ever. 
 
 Thou shalt be, and thou art I 
 Exult, dust and ashes ! 
 
 The LoHD shall be thy part : 
 His only, His for ever, 
 
 Thou shalt be, and thou art ! 
 
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 IV. 
 
 THE HYMN OF PETER DAMIANI. 
 
 [eleventh century.] 
 
 Ad perennis vitae fontem mens sitivit avida, 
 Claustra carnis praesto frangi clausa quaerit anima 
 Gliscit, ambit, eluctatur, exul frui patria. 
 
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 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Dum pressuris ac aerumnis se gemit obnoxiam, 
 Quam amisit, dum deliquit, contemplatur gloriam ; 
 Praesens malum auget boni perditi memoriam. 
 
 Nam qnis promat summae pacis quanta sit latitia, 
 Ubi vivis margaritis surgunt aedificia, 
 Auro celsa micant tecta, radiant triclinia ! 
 
 Solis gemmis pretiosis hacc structura nectitur, 
 Auro mundo tanquam vitro urbis via sternitur; 
 Abest limus, deest fimus, lues nulla cernitur. 
 
 niems horrens, aestas torrensillic nunquam saeviunt; 
 Flos perpetuus rosarum ver agit perpetuum, 
 Candent lilia, rubescit crocus, sudat balsamum. 
 
 Virent prata, vemant sata, rivi mellis influunt ; 
 Pigmentorum spirat odor, liquor et aromatum ; 
 Pendent jioma floridorum non lapsura nemorum. 
 
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 Non alternat luna vices, sol, vel cursus siderum ; 
 
 Agnus est felicis urbis lumen inocciduum, 
 
 Nox et tempus desunt ei, diem fert continuum. 
 
 Nam et sancti quique velut sol praeclarus rutilant, 
 Post triumphura coronati mutiie conjubilant, 
 Et prostrati pugnas hostis iam securi numerant. 
 
 APPEKBIX. 
 
 Omni labe defocati carnis bella neSciunt, 
 Caro facta spiritalis et mens unum sentiimt 
 Pace multa perfruentes scandalum non perferunt 
 
 Mutabilibus exuti repetunt originem, 
 
 Et praesentem veritatis contemplantiir speciem, 
 
 Hinc vitalem vivi fontis liauriunt dulcedinem. ' 
 
 Inde statum semper idem existendi capiunt, 
 Clari, vividi, jucundi nullis patent casibus: 
 Absunt morbi semper sanis, senectus juvenibus. 
 
 Hinc perenne tenent esse, nam transire transiit • 
 Inde virent, vigent, florent : corruptela corruit/ 
 Immortalitatis vigor mortis ius absorbuit. 
 
 Qui scientum cuncta sciunt, quid nescire nequeunt 
 Nam et pectoris arcana penetrant alterutrum, 
 XJnum volunt, unum nolunt, unitas est mentium. 
 
 Licet cuiquam sit diversum pro labore meritum, 
 Cantas hoc tacit suum quod amat in altero ; 
 Proprium sic singulorum fit commune omnium. 
 
 Ubi corpus, illic iure congregantur aquilae, 
 Quo cum angelis et sanctae recreantur animae, 
 Uno pane vivunt elves utriusque patriae. 
 
 81 
 
 i 
 
) 
 
 82 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 \\ I kii 
 
 "J ii 
 
 Avidi et semper pleni, quod habent desiderant, 
 Non satietas fastidit, neque fiimes cruciat : 
 Inhiantes semper edunt et edentes inhiant. 
 
 Novas semper melodias vox meioda concrepat, 
 Et in jubilum prolata mulcent aures organa, 
 Digna per quern sunt victores, Rcgi dant praeconia. 
 
 Felix coeli qui praesentem Regem ceriiit anima, 
 Et sub sede spectat alta orbis volvi machinam, 
 Solem, lunam, et globosa cum planetis sidera. 
 
 Cbriste, palma bellatorum, hoc in municipium 
 Introduc me post solutum militare cingulum, 
 Fac consortem donativi beatorum civium. 
 
 Praebe vires inexhausto laboranti proelio, 
 Nee quietem post procinctum deneges emerito, 
 Teque merear potiri sine fine praemio. 
 
 83 
 
 V. 
 
 THE JOYS OF HEAVEN. 
 
 I* TBANSLAnoVOP THB HTMN OP PETER BAMU^,, Br THE AUTHOE 
 OP THE VOICE OP CHEISTUX L,PK m SOXG," " THE SCHoCr, 
 COTTA PAJIILT," AKB OTHER WORKS.] SCHONBERfl- 
 
 IN the Fount of life perennial the parch'd heart its 
 thirst would slake, 
 
 And the soul, in flesh imprison'd, longs her prison 
 walls to break— 
 
 Exile, seeking, sighing, yearning, in her fatherland 
 to wake. 
 
 When with cares oppress'd and sorrows, only groans 
 her grief can tell, 
 
 Then she contemplates the glory which she lost when 
 first she fell ; 
 
 Present evil but the memory of the vanish'd good 
 can swell. 
 
 H; T 
 
 Who 
 
 can utter what the pleasures and the 
 unbroken are. 
 
 peace 
 
84 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM, 
 
 Where arise the pearly mansions, shedding silvery 
 
 light afar, 
 Festive seats and golden roofs, which glitter like the 
 
 evening star ! 
 
 Wholly of fair stones most precious are those radiant 
 
 structures made, 
 With pure gold, like glass transparent, are those 
 
 shining streets inlaid. 
 Nothing that detilcs can enter, nothing that can soil 
 
 or fade. 
 
 Stormy winter, burning summer, rage within those 
 
 regions never, 
 But perpetual bloom of roses and unfading spring 
 
 for ever ; 
 Lilies gleam, the crocus glows, and dropping balms 
 
 their scents deliver. 
 
 Honey pure, and greenest pastures, this the land of 
 
 2)romise is, 
 Liquid odours soft distilling, peifunies breathing on 
 
 the breeze ; 
 Fruits immortal cluster always ou the leafy fadeless 
 
 trees. 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 85 
 
 There no moon shines chill and changing, there no 
 
 stars with twinkling ray, 
 For the Lamb of that blest city is at once the Sun 
 
 and Day ; 
 Night and time are known no longer, day shall never 
 
 fade away. 
 
 There the saints like suns are radiant, like the sun 
 
 at dawn they glow ; 
 Crowned victors after conflict, all their joys together 
 
 flow. 
 And secure they count the battles where they fought 
 
 the prostrate foe. 
 
 Every stain of flesh is cleansed, every strife is left 
 
 behind, 
 Spiritual are their bodies, perfect unity of mind ; 
 Dwelling in deep peace for ever, no offence or grief 
 
 they find. 
 
 Putting off their mortal vesture, in their Source their 
 souls they steep — 
 
 Truth by actual vision learning, on its form their 
 gaze they keep - - 
 
 Drinking from the living Fountain draughts of liv- 
 ing waters deep. 
 8 
 
g6 
 
 THE XEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 87 
 
 Time, with all its alternations, enters not those hosts 
 
 among ; 
 Glorious, wakeful, blest, no shade of chance or change 
 
 o'er them is flung; 
 Sickness cjinnot touch the deathless, nor old age the 
 
 ever young. 
 
 Where the body is, there ever are t le eagles gathered. 
 For the saints and for the angels one most l)lessed 
 
 feast is spread — 
 Citizens of either country living on the selfsame 
 
 bread. 
 
 There their being is eternal, things that cease have 
 
 ceased to l>e : 
 All corruption there has perish'd, there they flourish 
 
 strong and free : 
 Thus mortality is swallow'd up of life eternally. 
 
 Ever fiird, and ever seeking, what they have they 
 
 still desire ; 
 Hunger theie shall fret them never, nor satiety shall 
 
 tire — 
 Still enjoying whilst aspiring, in their joy they still 
 
 aspire. 
 
 Naught trom them is hidden, knowing Him to whom 
 
 all things are known, 
 All the spirit's deep recesses, sinless, to each other 
 
 shown — 
 Unity of will and purpose, heart and mind for ever 
 
 one. 
 
 There the new song, new for ever, those melodious 
 
 voices sing, 
 Ceaseless streams of fullest music through those 
 
 blessed regions ring ; 
 Crowned victors ever bringing praises worthy of the 
 
 King! 
 
 Diverse as their varied labours the rewards to each 
 
 that fall. 
 But Love, what she loves in others evermore her own 
 
 doth call ; 
 Thus the several joy of each becomes the commoD 
 
 joy of all. 
 
 Blessi^d who the King of heaven in ITis beauty thus 
 
 behold, 
 And beneath His throne rejoicing see the universe 
 
 unfold — 
 Sun and moon, and stars and planets, radiant in His 
 
 light unroll'd ! 
 
 ll 
 
88 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Christ, the Palm of faithful victors ! of that city 
 
 make me free ; 
 \Vhen my warfare shall be ended, to its mansions 
 
 lead Thou me, — 
 Grant me, with its happy inmates, sharer of Thy 
 
 gifts to be 1 
 
 Let Thy soldier, yet contending, still be with Thy 
 
 strength supplied ; 
 
 Thou wilt not deny the quiet when the arms are laid 
 aside ; 
 
 Make me meet with Thee for ever in that country to 
 
 abide. 
 
 APPEXDIX. 
 
 89 
 
 VI. 
 
 THE DESCiaPTION OF HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. 
 
 [an ENGLISH HTMN OF THE TIME OP QUEEN ELIZABETH. KVI- 
 DENTLY A TRANSLATION OF THE HYMN OF DAMIANI, BEFUUK 
 GIVEN.] 
 
 My thirsty soul desires her drought 
 At heauenly fountaines to refresh ; 
 
 My prysoned minde would fayue be out 
 Of chaynes and fetters of the flesh. 
 
 She looketh vp vnto the state, 
 
 From whence she downe by sin did slide ; 
 She mournes the more the good she lost, 
 
 For present euill she doth abide. 
 
 
 She longs from rough and dangerous seas, 
 To harbour in the hauen of blisse ; 
 
 Where safely anchor at her ease. 
 And store of sweet contentment is. 
 
 From banishment she more and more 
 Desires to see her countrey deare ; 
 
 She sits and sends her sighes before. 
 Her ioyes and treasures all be there. 
 
90 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 From Babilon she would returne, 
 VDto her home and towne of peace, 
 
 Jerusalem, where ioyes abounde, 
 Continue still and neuer cease. 
 
 There blustering winter neuer blowes, 
 Xor sommer's j^arching heate doth harme ; 
 
 It neuer freezeth there, nor snowes; 
 The weather's euer tenii)erate warme. 
 
 The trees doe blossome, bud, and beare ; 
 
 The birds doe euer chirpe and sin"- ; 
 The fruit is mellow all the yeare : 
 
 They haue an euerlasting spring. 
 
 The pleasant gardens euer keep 
 —Their hearbes and flowers fresh and greene • 
 All sorts of dainty plants and fruites 
 At all times there are to be scene. 
 
 The riuer, wine most perfect flowes, 
 More pleasant than the honny combe ; 
 
 Vpon whose bankes the sugar growes, 
 Enclosed in reedcs of sinaiuon. 
 
 Her walles of jasper stones be built, 
 Most rich and fayre that euer was ; 
 
 IJer streetes and houses pauVl and gilt 
 With gold more cleare then christall glasse. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Her gates in equall distance be, 
 And each a glistering margarite, 
 
 Which commers in farre off may see— 
 A gladsome and a glorious sight. 
 
 Her sunne doth neuer 'clipse nor cloude ; 
 
 Her moone doth neuer wax nor wane : 
 The Lambe with light hath her endued, 
 
 Whose glory pen cannot explaine. 
 
 The glorious saintes her dwellers be, 
 In numbers more then men can thinke ; 
 
 So many in a company. 
 As loue in likenes doth them linke. 
 
 The starres in brightnes they surpasse ; 
 
 In swiftnes, arrowes from a bowe ; 
 In strength, in firmnes, Steele or brasse ; 
 
 In brightnes, fire ; in whitgncs, snow. 
 
 Theyr cloathing are more softe then silke. 
 With girdles gilt of beaten golde ; 
 
 They in their hands, as white as milke, 
 Of palme triumphant branches holde. 
 
 Theyr faces, shining like the sunne, 
 
 Shoot forth their glorious gladsome beames : 
 The field is fought ; the battle won ; 
 
 Their heads be crowned with diademes. 
 
 91 
 
 
 I 
 
92 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Reward as vertue different is ; 
 
 Distinct their ioyes and happines ; 
 But each in ioy of other's blisse, 
 
 Doth as his ovvne the same possesse. 
 
 So each in glory doe abound, 
 And all their glories doe excell : 
 
 But where as all to each redound, 
 Who can th' exceeding glory tell ? 
 
 Triumphant warriers you may lieare, 
 Recount their daungers which doe cease ; 
 
 And noble citizens euery where. 
 
 Their happy gaines of ioy and peace. 
 
 The King that heauenly pallace rules, 
 Doth beare vpon his golden shield 
 
 A crosse in signe of tryumph, gules, 
 Erected in a uerdant field. 
 
 His glory such as doth behoue 
 Him in his manhood for to take, 
 
 Whose Godhead earth and heauen aboue, 
 And all that dwell therein, did make. 
 
 Like friends, all partners are in blisse. 
 
 With Christ their Lord and Master deare , 
 
 Like spouses they the bridegroome kisse. 
 Who feasteth them with heauenly cheare ; 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 With tree of life, and manna sweete, 
 Which taste doth such a pleasure bring, 
 
 As none to iudge thereof be meete. 
 But they which banquet with the King 
 
 With cherubins their wings they mooue, 
 And mount in contemplation hye ; 
 
 With scraphins they burne in loue, 
 The beames of glory be so nygh. 
 
 O sweet as2)ect ; vision of peace ; 
 
 Happy regard and heauenly sight ; 
 endlesse ioy without surcease ; 
 
 Perpctuall day which hath no night ! 
 
 O well of wcale ; fountaine of life ; 
 
 A spring of euerlasting blisse ; 
 Eternal sunne ; resplendant light ; 
 
 And eminent cause of all that is I 
 
 Riuer of pleasure ; sea of delight ; 
 
 Garden of glory euer greene ; 
 O glorious glasse, and mirrour bright, 
 
 Wherein all truth is clearly scene ! 
 
 princely pallace, royall court ; 
 
 Mofiarchall scate ; emperiall throne ! 
 Where King of kings, and Soucraigne Lord, 
 
 For euer ruleth all alone : 
 
 93 
 
94 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Where all the glorious saints doe see 
 
 The secrets of the Deity ; 
 The Godhead one, in persons three, 
 
 The super-blessed Trinity. 
 
 The depth of wisdome most profound, 
 
 All puisant high sublimity ; 
 The breadth of loue without all bound. 
 
 In cndlesse long eternity. 
 
 The heauy earth belowe by kindc 
 Alone ascends the mounting fire : 
 
 Be this the centor of my minde, 
 And lofty spheare of her desire. 
 
 The chafed deare doth take the foyle ; 
 
 The tyred hare the thickes and wood : 
 Be this the comfort of my toyle, 
 
 My refuge, hope, and soueraigne good. 
 
 The merchant cuts the seas for gaine ; 
 
 The soldier serueth for renowne ; 
 The tyllman plowes the ground for graine ; 
 
 Be this my ioy and lasting crowne. 
 
 The faulkner seekes to see a flight : 
 The hunter beates to view the game : 
 
 Long thou, my soule, to see this sight, 
 And labour to enjoy the same. 
 
 APPEXDLV. 
 
 No one's without some one delight, 
 Which he endeauours to attaine : 
 
 Seeke thou, my soule, both day and night, 
 This one, which euer shall remaine. 
 
 This one containes all pleasures true — 
 All other pleasures be but vaine : 
 
 Bid thou the rest, my soule, adue, 
 And seeke this one alone to gaine. 
 
 Go count the grass vpon the ground, 
 Or sandes that lye vpon the shore ; 
 
 And when yee haue the number found, 
 The ioyes hereof be many more. 
 
 More thousand, thousand yeares they last, 
 And lodge within the happy mynde ; 
 
 And when so many yeares be past, 
 Yet more and more be still behinde. 
 
 Farre more they be than we can weene ; 
 
 They doe our iudgment much excell : 
 No ear hath heard, or eye hath scene ; 
 
 No pen can write, no tongue can tell. 
 
 An angel's tongue cannot recyte 
 The endlesse ioy of heauenly blisse ; 
 
 Which, being wholly infinite. 
 Beyond all speech and writing is. 
 
 95 
 
96 THE XEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 IVe can imagine but a shade ; 
 
 It neuer entred into thought, 
 What ioys he hath enioyed, that made 
 
 All ioys, and them that io}', of nought, 
 
 3Iy soule cannot these ioys contayne ; 
 
 Let her, Lord, enter into them, 
 For euer with thee to remayne, 
 
 Within thy towne, lerusalem I 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 97 
 
 VII. 
 
 DE GLORIA. 
 
 [a frkk translation op part op the htmn op peter DAin* 
 
 ANI, Br ME. WACKERBARTH.] 
 
 There nor waxing moon nor waning, 
 Sun nor stars in courses bii2:ht : 
 
 For the Lamb to that glad city 
 Shines an everlasting light : 
 
 There the daylight beams for ever, 
 All unknown arc time and night. 
 
 For the Saints, in beauty beaming, 
 Shine in light and glory pure : 
 \ Crowned in triumph's flushing honours 
 
 Joy in unison secure : 
 
 And in safety tell their battles 
 And their foes' discomfiture. 
 
 Freed from every stain of evil, 
 All their carnal wars arc done : 
 
 For the flesh made spiritual 
 And the soul agree in one : 
 
 Peace unbroken spreads enjoyment, 
 Sin and scandal are unknown. 
 9 
 
 I 
 
yg THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Here they live in endless being : 
 Passingness has passed away : 
 
 Here they bloom, they thrive, they floiu ish. 
 For decayed is all decay : 
 
 Lasting energy hath swallowed 
 Darkling death's malignant sway. 
 
 Though each one's respective merit 
 Hath its varying palm assigned, 
 
 Love takes all as his possession, 
 
 Where his power hath all combined : 
 
 So that all that each possesses 
 All partake in, unconfined. 
 
 Christ, Thy soldiers' palm of honour, 
 
 Unto this Thy City free 
 Lead me, when my warfare's girdle 
 
 I shall cast away from me : 
 A partaker in Thy bounty 
 
 With Thy Blessed ones to be. 
 
 Grant me vigour, while I labour 
 In the ceaseless battle i)ressed. 
 
 That Thou may'st, the conflict over, 
 Grant me everlasting rest : 
 
 And I may at length inherit 
 Thee my portion ever blest. 
 
 APPEXDIX. 
 
 99 
 
 VIII. 
 
 A SONG BY F. B. P. TO THE TUNE OF DIANA. 
 
 TPUBLISHED BY DR. BONAE FROM MSS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.] 
 
 HiERUSALEM, my happy home ! 
 
 When shall I come to thee ! 
 When shall my sorrowes have an end, 
 
 Thy joyes when shall I see ? 
 
 happie harbour of the saints I 
 swecte and pleasant soyle ! 
 
 In thee no sorrow may be found, 
 Noe greefe, noe care, noe toyle. 
 
 In thee noe sicknesse may be scene, 
 Noe hurt, noe ache, noe sore ; 
 
 There is noe death, nor uglie Devill, 
 There is life for evermore. 
 
 Noe dampish mist is scene in thee, 
 Noe colde nor darksome night ; 
 
 There everie soule shines as the sunne, 
 There God himselfe gives light. 
 
 
100 
 
 TUE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 There lust and lukar cannot dwell, 
 
 There envy bears no sway ; 
 There is no hunger, heate, nor colde, 
 
 But pleasure everie way. 
 
 Hierusalem ! Ilierusalem I 
 
 » 
 God grant I soon may see 
 
 Thy endless joyes ; and of the same 
 
 Partaker aye to bee. 
 
 Thy walls are made of pretious stones, 
 Thy bulwarkes diamondes square ; 
 
 Thy gates are of right orient pearl e, 
 Exceedinge riche and rare. 
 
 Thy turrettes and thy pinnacles 
 
 With carbuncles doe shine ; 
 Thy verrie streets are paved with gould, 
 
 Surpassinge cleare and fine. 
 
 Thy houses are of yvorie, 
 
 Thy windows crystal cleare, 
 Thy tyles are made of beaten gould, 
 
 God ! that I were there. 
 
 Within thy gates nothinge doth come 
 That is not passinge cleane, 
 
 Noe spider's web, no durt, no dust, 
 Noc filthe may there be scene. 
 
 APIENDLX. 
 
 Ah I my sweete home, Hierusalem, 
 
 Would God I were in thee ! 
 Would God my woes were at an end, 
 
 Thy ioyes that I might see. 
 
 Thy saints are crowned with glorie great^ 
 
 They see God face to fjice ; 
 They triumph still, they still reioyce. 
 
 Most happie is their case. 
 
 Wee that are heere in banishment, 
 
 Continuallie doe moane ; 
 We sigh, and sobbe, we weepe, and weale, 
 
 Perpetual! ie we groane. 
 
 Our sweete is mixt with bitter gaule» 
 
 Our pleasure is but paine ; 
 Our ioyes scarce last the lookeing on^ 
 
 Our sorrowes still remaine. 
 
 But there they live in such delight, 
 
 Such pleasure and such play. 
 As that to them a thousand yeares 
 
 Doth seeme as yesterday. 
 
 Thy vineyardes and thy orchardes are 
 
 Most beautifuU and faire ; 
 Full furnished with trees and fruits. 
 
 Most wonderful and rare. 
 
 lOI 
 
 II 
 
 
102 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Thy gardens and thy gallant walkes 
 
 Continually are greene ; 
 There grow such sweete and pleasant flowers 
 
 As no where else are seene. 
 
 There is nectar and ambrosia made, 
 There is muske and civette sweete ; 
 
 There manie a faire and daintie drugge 
 Are trodden under feete. 
 
 There cinomon, there sugar grow, 
 There narde and balme abound ; 
 
 What toungue can tell, or harte containe, 
 The ioyes that there are found. 
 
 Quyt through the streetes with silver sound, 
 
 The flood of life doe flowe ; 
 Upon whose bankes on everie syde, 
 
 The wood of life doth growe. 
 
 There trees for evermore beare fruite, 
 
 And evermore doe springe ; 
 There evermore the angels sit, 
 
 And evermore doe singe. 
 
 There David stands with harpe in hand, 
 
 As blaster of the Queere ; 
 Tenne thousand times that man were blest, 
 
 That mijjht this musicke heare. 
 
 APPEXDIX. 
 
 Our Ladie singes Magnificat, 
 With tunes surpassinge sweete ; 
 
 And all the virginns beare their parte, 
 Siting above her feete. 
 
 Te Deum doth Sant Ambrose singe, 
 Saint Augustine doth the like ; 
 
 Ould Simeon and Zacharie 
 Have not their songes to seeke. 
 
 There Magdalene hath left her mone, 
 And cheerfuUie doth singe 
 
 With blessed saints, whose harmonic 
 In everie street doth ringe. 
 
 Hierusalem ! my happic home I 
 Would God I were in thee ! 
 
 Would God my woes were at an end, 
 Thy joyes that I might see I 
 
 103 
 
I04 THE XEW JERUSALEM, 
 
 IX. 
 
 DIFFERENT VERSIONS. 
 
 The brief versions of the hymn, familiar to 
 all readers from tlie first line, "Jerusalem, my 
 happy home," are very numerous. The earliest 
 in this form with which we have met, is ascribed 
 by Dr. Bonar to " a small work j)ublished by the 
 Rev. W. Burkitt (the Expositor), dated 1093." 
 AVe have a little book. The Pooh MxVn's IIeli 
 AND YouxG Man's Guide, by William Burkitt. 
 ^I. A., of Pembroke Hall, in Cambridge, late 
 Vicar of Dedham, in Essex, Thirty-second Edi- 
 tion, Albany (X. Y.), 1804, the introduction to 
 which is dated, Dedham, 1693. In this we find 
 the same version, differing in only a few words 
 from that published by Dr. Bonar which we 
 here giv ; 
 
 Jerusalem ! my happy home ! 
 
 When shall I come to thee ! 
 "When shall my labours have an end, 
 
 Thy joys when shall I see ? 
 
 Thy gates are richly set with pearls, 
 
 Most glorious to behold ; 
 Thy walls are all of precious stone, 
 
 Thy streets are paved with gold. 
 
 APPENDIX. :05 
 
 Thy gardens and thy pleasant fruit 
 
 Continually are green ; 
 So sweet a sight, by human eye. 
 
 Has fiever vet been seen. 
 
 If heaven Ije thus glorious, Lord, 
 
 Why must. I keep from thence ? 
 What folly is 't that makes me loathe 
 
 To die and go from hence. 
 
 Reach down, reach down, thine arm of grace. 
 
 And cause me to ascend, 
 Where congregations ne'er break up, 
 
 And Sabbaths have no end. 
 
 When wilt thou come to me, O Lord I 
 
 O come, my Lord, most dear ; 
 Come nearer, nearer, nearer still, 
 
 I'm well when thou art near. 
 
 Sly dear Redeemer is above, 
 
 Him will I go to see ; 
 And all my friends in Christ below 
 
 Shall soon come after me. 
 
 Jerusalem ! my happy home ! 
 
 O how I long for thee, 
 Then shall my labours have an end, 
 
 When once thy joys I see 
 
io6 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 We take the followinor version from Psalms 
 AXD IIymxs, authorizp:d by the General 
 Assembly, published at Philadelphia, by the 
 Presbyterian Board of Publication : 
 
 Jerusalem, my happy home, 
 
 Xarae ever dear to me ! 
 When shall my labours have an end, 
 
 In joy and peace and thee ? 
 
 When shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls 
 
 And pearly gates behold ? 
 Thy bulwarks with salvation strong 
 
 And streets of shining gold ? 
 
 O when, thou city of my God, 
 
 Shall I thy courts ascend. 
 Where congregations ne'er break up. 
 
 And Sabbaths have no end ! 
 
 There happier bowers than Eden's bloom, 
 
 Nor sin nor sorrow know : 
 Blest seats, through rude and stormy scenes 
 
 I onward press to you. 
 
 Why should I shrink at pain and woe 
 
 Or feel at death dismay ? 
 IVe Canaan's goodly land in view 
 
 And realms of endless day. 
 
 APPENDIX, 107 
 
 Apostles, martyrs, prophets there 
 
 Around my Saviour stand, 
 And soon my friends in Christ below 
 
 Will join the glorious band. 
 
 Jerusalem, my happy home 
 
 My soul still pants for thee : 
 Then shall my labours have an end, 
 
 When I thy joys shall see. 
 
 The forecfoinor version has been in use nearly 
 a century, a single word only being changed. 
 In the last line but one " sorrows " has been 
 sometimes substituted for '' labours." The fond- 
 ness of makers of hymn books for the alteration 
 of good old hymns has led to nearly as many 
 variations on this form of the hynm, as there 
 have been new books. Thus, in the Church 
 Psalmist, published by the Presbyterian 
 Publication Committee, Philadelphia, the 
 hymn appears much altered. The fourth stanza 
 is omitted, and three of the others are given as 
 follows : 
 
 Oh when thou city of my God 
 
 Shall I thy courts ascend, — 
 Where congregations ne'er break up 
 
 And Sabbaths never end ? 
 
I08 THE XEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Why should T shrink at pain or woe 
 
 Or feel, at death, dismay ? 
 Jerusalem I soon shall view, 
 
 In realms of endless day. 
 
 Redeemed saints and angels there 
 
 Around my Saviour stand ; 
 And soon my friends in Christ below 
 
 Will join the glorious band. 
 
 In Psalms and Hymns, published by the 
 Board of Publication op the Reformei) 
 Dutch Church, New York, 1860, the fifth 
 stanza in the foregoing version is omitted, 
 and the third line of the fourth stanza is thus 
 changed : 
 
 Blessed seats ! through wild and stormy scenes. 
 
 In The Psal^iist, published by the Ameri- 
 can Baptist Publication Society, the first 
 lines of the first and last stanzas are thus : 
 
 Jerusalem, my glorious home I 
 
 The freedom with which old hymns are 
 revised and chanored is well illustrated in the 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 109 
 
 following version taken from the Sabbath 
 Hymn Book, a New York publication : 
 
 Jerusalem, my happy home : 
 
 Name ever dear to me ! 
 When shall my labors have an end ? 
 
 In joy, and peace, in thee ? 
 
 Oh ! when thou city of my God 
 
 Shall [ thy courts ascend, 
 Where evermore the angels sing, 
 
 Where Sabbaths have no end ? 
 
 There happier bowers, than Eden's, bloom, 
 
 Nor sin nor sorrow know : 
 Blest seats ! through rude and stormy scenes, 
 
 I onward press to you. 
 
 Wliy should I shrink at pain and woe ? 
 
 Or feel at death dismay ? 
 I've Canaan's goodly land in view 
 
 And realms of endless day. 
 
 Jerusalem, my glorious home I 
 
 My soul still pants for thee : 
 Then shall my labors have an end, 
 
 When I thy joys shall see. 
 
 In Hymns for the Use of the Methodist 
 10 
 
no 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 Episcopal Church, Revised Edition^ edited by 
 a Committee, New York, 1849, only five staozas 
 of the hymn appear. 
 
 In the Plymouth Collection, New York, 
 1856, are adopted the readings, Jerusalem^ my 
 glorious hotne, in the first and last stanzas ; and 
 the third stanza is omitted. 
 
 In "Christian Psalmody, a Collection of 
 above nine hundred Hymns, etc.,'*^ by tlie Rev. 
 Edward Bickerstetli, Rector of Walton, TTerts; 
 London, no date, tlie hymn appears as follows : 
 
 Jerusalem, my happy home, 
 
 Name ever dear to me, 
 When shall my labours have an end ? 
 
 Thy joys when shall I see ? 
 
 Wlien shall these eyes thy glorious walls, 
 
 And gates of pearl behold, 
 Thy bulwarks with salvation strong, 
 
 And streets of purest gold ? 
 
 Oh ! when, thou city of my God, 
 
 Shall I th}^ courts ascend, 
 Where congregations ne'er break up, 
 
 And Sabbaths never end ? 
 
 APFEyBLY. 
 
 Why should I shrink at pain and woe, 
 
 Or feel at death dismay ? 
 I Ve Canaan's goodly land in view, 
 
 And realms of endless day. 
 
 Jesus, my Saviour, dwells therein, 
 
 In glorious majesty ; 
 And Him, through ev'ry stormy scene, 
 
 I ©nward i)rcss to see. 
 
 Apostles, martyrs, prophets, there 
 
 Around my Saviour stand, 
 And all I love in Christ below 
 
 Shall join the glorious baud. 
 
 Ill 
 
 Jerusalem, my happy home. 
 
 My soul still pants for Thee ; 
 Then shall my labours have an end. 
 
 When once thy joys I see. 
 
 It is unnecessary to go on with these illustra- 
 tions. And since the oldest version in common 
 use was itself only an alteration of some lines 
 of the original hymn, " Oh Mother dear, Jerusa- 
 lem," it may with much force be pleaded that 
 any compiler of a hymn book has equal right to 
 
112 
 
 THE NEW JERUSALEM. 
 
 change that version. It is in truth only a matter 
 of taste, and all these versions are but weak 
 substitutes for the triumphant chaunt of the 
 original hymn. 
 
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