I Heard Immanuel Singing



(The poem shows the Master, with his work done, singing to free his heart
in Heaven.)

This poem is intended to be half said, half sung, very softly,
to the well-known tune: --

"Last night I lay a-sleeping,
There came a dream so fair,
I stood in Old Jerusalem
Beside the temple there, --" etc.

Yet this tune is not to be fitted on, arbitrarily. It is here given
to suggest the manner of handling rather than determine it.


# To be sung. #
I heard Immanuel singing
Within his own good lands,
I saw him bend above his harp.
I watched his wandering hands
Lost amid the harp-strings;
Sweet, sweet I heard him play.
His wounds were altogether healed.
Old things had passed away.

All things were new, but music.