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Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Anonymous
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Numbers from Elizabethan Miscellanies & Song-books
by Unnamed or Uncertain Authors. 1601

61. The Now Jerusalem
Song of Mary the Mother of Christ (London: E. Allde)

HIERUSALEM, my happy home,
When shall I come to thee?
When shall my sorrows have an end,
Thy joys when shall I see?

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

There lust and lucre cannot dwell,
There envy bears no sway;
There is no hunger, heat, nor cold,
But pleasure every way.

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

Thy turrets and thy pinnacles
With carbuncles do shine;
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