The Hymnal ‎#543b

543b. Jerusalem! high tower thy glorious walls

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.

Great fastness thou of honour! 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.

Unnumbered choirs before the Lamb's high throne
There shout the jubilee,
With loud resounding peal and sweetest tone,
In blissful ecstasy:
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A hundred thousand voices
Take up the wondrous song;
Eternity rejoices
God's praises to prolong.

Text Information

• First Line: Jerusalem! high tower thy glorious walls
• Author: Johann M. Meyfart
• Translator: William R. Whittingham (1860, cento)
• Meter: 10.6.10.6.7.6.7.6
• Publication Date: 1916
• Topic: Processional; Sunday Schools
• Notes: Now Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: WHITTINGHAM
• Composer: Horatio Parker (1887)
• Meter: 10.6.10.6.7.6.7.6
• Key: D Major
• Notes: Now Public Domain.