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This is the city John did once discern Descend from heaven apocalyptical, Whereof “his thoughts do breathe, his words do burn.” Beautiful city! Mother of us all! Vision of Peace! white bride of Deity! Whose Glory clothes thine apostolic walls! Angels thy gates encompass lovingly, Equal in all dimensions as beseems, And like an angel’s thy capacity. Death is not in thee, nor the fierce extremes Of pain or sorrow, nor anxiety. Here evil comes not, neither evil dreams; No temple hast thou, for the Lord Most High Thy temple is. No sun thou hast, nor moon, His Glory is thy light eternally. Lo! every nation brings to thee a boon; Thy gates shall not be shut at all by day, Nor night be thine, land of perpetual noon; The kings of earth to thee their homage pay. But no defiled thing shall enter thee, Loving a lie, or tempting to betray.
This is the city John did once discern Descend from heaven apocalyptical, Whereof “his thoughts do breathe, his words do burn.” Beautiful city! Mother of us all! Vision of Peace! white bride of Deity! Whose Glory clothes thine apostolic walls! Angels thy gates encompass lovingly, Equal in all dimensions as beseems, And like an angel’s thy capacity. Death is not in thee, nor the fierce extremes Of pain or sorrow, nor anxiety. Here evil comes not, neither evil dreams; No temple hast thou, for the Lord Most High Thy temple is. No sun thou hast, nor moon, His Glory is thy light eternally. Lo! every nation brings to thee a boon; Thy gates shall not be shut at all by day, Nor night be thine, land of perpetual noon; The kings of earth to thee their homage pay. But no defiled thing shall enter thee, Loving a lie, or tempting to betray.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. A. Heraud (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 128 · printed citation: J. A. Heraud · subject: CITY
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