StoryTitle("caps", "The New Jerusalem") ?>
First published as
Song of Mary the Mother of Christ
(London: E. Allde), 1601
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hierusalem, my happy home,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When shall I come to thee?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When shall my sorrows have an end,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy joys when shall I see?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O happy harbour of the Saints!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O sweet and pleasant soil!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In thee no sorrow may be found,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No grief, no care, no toil.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There lust and lucre cannot dwell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There envy bears no sway;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There is no hunger, heat, nor cold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But pleasure every way.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy walls are made of precious stones,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy bulwarks diamonds square;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy gates are of right orient pearl,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Exceeding rich and rare.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy turrets and thy pinnacles", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With carbuncles do shine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy very streets are paved with gold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Surpassing clear and fine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah, my sweet home, Hierusalem,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Would God I were in thee!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would God my woes were at an end,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy joys that I might see!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy gardens and thy gallant walks", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Continually are green;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There grows such sweet and pleasant flowers", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As nowhere else are seen.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quite through the streets, with silver sound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The flood of Life doth flow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon whose banks on every side", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The wood of Life doth grow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There trees for evermore bear fruit,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And evermore do spring;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There evermore the angels sit,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And evermore do sing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our Lady sings Magnificat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With tones surpassing sweet;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all the virgins bear their part,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sitting about her feet.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hierusalem, my happy home,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Would God I were in thee!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would God my woes were at an end,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy joys that I might see!", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>