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Jerusalem my Happy Home

by F. P. B. (c. 1580) based on St. Augustine (c. 400 AD)

   1. Jerusalem, my happy home,
        When shall I come to thee?
      When shall my sorrows have an end?
        Thy joys, when shall I see?

   2. O happy harbor of the saints!
        O sweet and pleasant soil!
      In thee no sorrow may be found,
        No grief, no cares, no toil.

   3. In thee no sickness may be seen,
        No hurt, no ache, no sore;
      In thee there is no dread of death,
        But life for evermore.

   4. No dampish mist is seen in thee,
        No cold nor darksome night;
      There every soul shines as the sun;
        There God Himself gives light.
      
   5. There lust and lucre cannot dwell;
        There envy bears no sway;
      There is no hunger, heat, nor cold,
        But pleasure every way.

   6. Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
        God grant I once may see
      Thy endless joys, and of the same
        Partaker I may be!

   7. Thy walls are made of precious stones,
        Thy bulwarks diamonds square;
      Thy gates are of right orient pearl;
        Exceeding rich and rare;

   8. Thy turrets and thy pinnacles
        With carbuncles do shine;
      Thy very streets are paved with gold,
        Surpassing clear and fine;

   9. Thy houses are of ivory,
        Thy windows crystal clear;
      Thy tiles are made of beaten gold - -
        God that I were there!

  10. Within thy gates no thing doth come
        That is not passing clean,
      No spider's web, no dirt, no dust,
        No filth may there be seen.

  

 

  11. Ah, my sweet home, Jerusalem,
        Would God I were in thee!
      Would God my woes were at an end,
        Thy joys that I might see!

  12. Thy Saints are crowned with glory great;
        They see God face to face;
      They triumph still, they still rejoice:
        Most happy is their case.

  13. We that are here in banishment,
        Continually do mourn;
      We sigh and sob, we weep and wail,
        Perpetually we groan.

  14. Our sweet is mixed with bitter gall,
        Our pleasure is but pain,
      Our joys scarce last the looking on,
        Our sorrows still remain.

  15. But there they live in such delight,
        Such pleasure and such play,
      As that to them a thousand years
        Doth seem as yesterday.

  16. Thy vineyards and thy orchards are
         Most beautiful and fair,
      Full furnish-ed with trees and fruits,
         Most wonderful and rare;

  17. Thy gardens and thy gallant walks
         Continually are green;
      There grow such sweet and precious flowers
         As nowhere else are seen.

  18. There's nectar and ambrosia made,
         There's musk and civet sweet;
      There many a fair and dainty drug
         Is trodden under feet.

  19. There cinnamon, there sugar grows,
         There nard and balm abound;
      What tongue can tell, or heart conceive,
         The joys that there are found!

 

 

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Update terakhir: Juni 11, 2001