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C. M.

BP. HEBER.

A Vision of Jerusalem.

1 JERUSALEM, Jerusalem! enthroned once on high, Thou favoured home of God on earth, thou heaven below the sky,

Now brought to bondage with thy sons, a curse and grief to see,

Jerusalem, Jerusalem! our tears shall flow for thee.

2 Oh hadst thou known thy day of grace, and flocked beneath the wing

Of him who called thee lovingly, thine own anointed King, Then had the tribes of all the world gone up thy pomp to

see,

And glory dwelt within thy gates, and all thy sons been

free!

3 'And who art thou that mournest me?' replied the ruin

gray,

'And fearest not rather that thyself may prove a castaway? I am a dried and abject branch, my place is given to thee; But wo to every barren graft of thy wild olive tree!

4 'Our day of grace is sunk in night, our time of mercy spent,

For heavy was my children's crime, and strange their pun

ishment;

Yet gaze not idly on our fall, but, sinner, warned be,
Who spared not his chosen seed, may send his wrath on

thee!

5 'Our day of grace is sunk in night, thy noon is in its prime ; Oh turn and seek thy Saviour's face in this accepted time! So Gentile, may Jerusalem a lesson prove to thee,

And in the new Jerusalem thy home for ever be!'

Thus saith the first, the great command,

'Tis gone, that bright and orbed blaze,
To thee let my first offerings rise,
To thee, O God, my prayer ascends,
To thy temple I repair,

Up to the fields where angels lie,

When power divine in mortal form,
When quiet in my house I sit,
When restless on my bed I lie,
When Spring unlocks the flowers,
Where shall the child of sorrow find,
While I keep silence and conceal,
While men grow bold in wicked ways,
Your harps, ye trembling saints,

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