Hymns of the Christian Church.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| Latin Hymns |
| | | Urbs Sion Aurea |
| | | From “De Contemptu Mundi” By Bernard of Morlaix. Tr. J. M. Neale (cir. 1125) |
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| JERUSALEM the golden, | |
| With milk and honey blest, | |
| Beneath thy contemplation | |
| Sink heart and voice oppressed | |
| I know not, O, I know not, | 5 |
| What social joys are there, | |
| What radiancy of glory, | |
| What light beyond compare! | |
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| They stand, those halls of Zion, | |
| Conjubilant with song, | 10 |
| And bright with many an angel | |
| And all the martyr throng. | |
| And they who, with their Leader, | |
| Have conquered in the fight, | |
| Forever and forever | 15 |
| Are clad in robes of white. | |
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| Jerusalem the glorious, | |
| The glory of the elect, | |
| O dear and future vision | |
| That eager hearts expect, | 20 |
| New mansion of new people, | |
| Whom God’s own love and light | |
| Promote, increase, make holy, | |
| Identify, unite! | |
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