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LIGHT'S ABODE, CELESTIAL SALEM.

O happie harbour of the saints!
O sweete and pleasant soyle!
In thee no sorrow may be found,

Noe greefe, noe care, noe toyle.

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 beautifull and faire;
Full furnished with trees and fruits,
Most wonderful and rare.

Thy gardens and thy gallant walkes

Continually are greene;

There grow such sweete and pleasant flowers As nowhere 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 forevermore beare fruite,
And evermore doe springe;
There evermore the angels sit,

And evermore doe singe.

There David stands with harpe in hand,
As Master of the Queere;

Tenne thousand times that man were blest,
That might this musicke heare.

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 cheerfullie doth singe,
With blessed saints, whose harmonie
In everie street doth ringe.

1616.

Hierusalem! my happie home!

987

Would God I were in thee! Would God my woes were at an end, Thy joys that I might see!

Attributed to F[RANCIS] B[AKER], P[riest].

LIGHT'S ABODE, CELESTIAL SALEM. "Jerusalem luminosa."

LIGHT'S abode, celestial Salem,

Vision dear, whence peace hath spring, Brighter than the heart can fancy,

Mansion of the highest King:
Oh, how glorious are the praises
Which of thee the prophets sing.

Thou with beauteous stones and polished
Wondrously art reared on high;
Thou with precious gems and crystal

Decorated gloriously:

And with pearls thy portals glitter,
And with gold thy streets may vie.
There forever and forever

Alleluia is outpoured:
For unending, for unbroken,
Is the feast-day of the Lord;
All is pure, and all is holy

That within thy walls is stored.
There no cloud or passing vapor
Dims the brightness of the air;
Endless noonday, glorious noonday

From the Sun of suns is there;
There no night brings rest from labor,
There unknown are toil and care.
Oh, how glorious and resplendent,
Fragile body, shalt thou be,
When endued with so much beauty,

Full of health, and strong, and free,
Full of vigor, full of pleasure

That shall last eternally!

Now with gladness, now with courage,
Bear the burden on thee laid,
That hereafter these thy labors

May with endless gifts be paid:
And in everlasting glory

Thou with joy mayst be arrayed. Laud and honor to the Father;

Laud and honor to the Son; Laud and honor to the Spirit ; Ever Three, and ever One: Consubstantial, co-eternal,

While unending ages run.

Amen. AUTHOR UNKNOWN.

JERUSALEM! HIGH TOWER.

"Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt."

WILLIAM ROLLINSON WHITTINGHAM, the late Bishop of Maryland, was born in New York City, Dec. 2, 1805. Educated entirely by his mother until he entered the General Theological Seminary of New York, he graduated from it a year in advance of the canonical age for ordination. He became Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the seminary from which he had graduated, in 1835, and in 1840 was chosen Bishop of Maryland. His death occurred in 1879.

JOHANN MATTHÆUS MEYFART, from whom this is translated, was professor at Erfurt; born in 1590, and died in 1636.

JERUSALEM! high tower thy glorious walls,
Would God I were in thee!

Desire of thee my longing heart enthralls,
Desire at home to be:

Wide from the world outleaping,

O'er hill and vale and plain,

My soul's strong wing is sweeping,
Thy portals to attain.

O gladsome day, and yet more gladsome hour!

When shall that hour have come,

When my rejoicing soul its own free power, May use in going home?

Itself to Jesus giving,

In trust to his own hand,

To dwell among the living

In that blest Fatherland.

A moment's time, the twinkling of an eye,
Shall be enough to soar,

In buoyant exultation, through the sky,
And reach the heavenly shore.
Elijah's chariot bringing

The homeward traveller there;
Glad troops of angels winging

It onward through the air.

Great fastness thou of honor! thee I greet! Throw wide thy gracious gate,

An entrance free to give these longing feet; At last released, though late,

From wretchedness and sinning,
And life's long, weary way;
And now, of God's gift, winning
Eternity's bright day.

What throng is this, what noble troop, that pours,

Arrayed in beauteous guise,

Out through the glorious city's open doors,
To greet my wondering eyes?
The hosts of Christ's elected,
The jewels that he bears
In his own crown, selected

To wipe away my tears.

Of prophets great, and patriarchs high, a band

That once has borne the cross,

With all the company that won that land,
By counting gain for loss,
Now float in freedom's lightness,

From tyrants' chains set free ;
And shine like suns in brightness,
Arrayed to welcome me.

One more at last arrived they welcome there, To beauteous Paradise,

Where sense can scarce its full fruition bear,

Or tongue for praise suffice; Glad hallelujahs ringing

With rapturous rebound, And rich hosannas singing Eternity's long round.

Unnumbered choirs before the Lamb's high throne

There shout the jubilee,

With loud resounding peal and sweetest tone, In blissful ecstasy:

A hundred thousand voices

Take up the wondrous song;

Eternity rejoices

God's praises to prolong.

JOHANN MATTÆHUS MEYFART, 1634 Translated by W. R. WHITTINGHAM, D. D.

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