MHB 655  – JERUSALEM, my happy home

Methodist-Hymns-655

1:  JERUSALEM, my happy home,
When shall I come to thee?
When shall my labors have an end?
Thy joys when shall I see?

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

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

4:  Thy turrets and thy pinnacles
With carbuncles do shine
Thy very streets are paved with gold
Surpassing clear and fine.

5:  Thy vineyards and thy orchards are
Most beautiful and fair,
Full furnished with trees and fruits
Most wonderful and rare.

6:  Thy gardens and thy gallant walks
Continually are green,
There grow such sweet and pleasant flowers
As nowhere else are seen.

7:  Quite through the streets with silver sound
The flood of life doth flow;
Upon whose banks on every side
The wood of life doth grow.

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

9:  There David stands with harp in hand
As master of the quire,
Ten thousand times that man were blest
That might this music hear.

10:  There Magdalene hath left her moan,
And cheerfully doth sing
With blessèd saints, whose harmony
In every street doth ring.

11:  Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
God grant me once to see
Thy endless joys and of the same
Partaker  aye to be. Amen.