Jerusalem on high My song and city is

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Jerusalem on high My song and city is

Author: Samuel Crossman (1661)
Tune: CHRISTCHURCH (Steggall)
Published in 65 hymnals

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1. Jerusalem on high
My song and city is;
My home whene'er I die,
The center of my bliss.

Refrain:
Oh, happy place!
When shall I be,
My God, with thee
To see your face?

2. No sun by day shines there,
Nor moon by silent night;
Oh! no, these needless are;
The Lamb the city's light. [Refrain]

3. There dwells my Lord, my King,
Judged here unfit to live.
There angels to him sing
And lowly homage give. [Refrain]

4. The bleeding martyrs they
Within those courts are found,
Clothed now in pure array,
Their seats with glory crowned. [Refrain]

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #274

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Author: Samuel Crossman

Crossman, Samuel , B.D. From A. Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (1720, vol. ii. p. 730) we gather all that is known of this hymnwriter. Wood says concerning him:— "Samuel Crossman, Bachelor of Divinity of Cambridge, and Prebendary of Bristol, son of Samuel Crossman, of Bradfield Monachorum, in Suffolk. He hath written and published several things, as The Young Man's Monitor, &c, London, 1664, 8vo., and several sermons, among which are two sermons preached in the Cathedral of Bristol, 30th Jan., 1679, and 30th Jan., 1680, being the days of public humiliation for the execrable murder of King Charles I, printed at London, 1681, &c.; also a sermon preached 23rd April, 1680, in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, before the Gentlemen of the Artill… Go to person page >

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