Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
Francis Turner Palgrave (18241897)140. The City of God
O
Not throned above the skies,
Nor wall’d with shining walls,
Nor framed with stones of price,
More bright than gold or gem,
God’s own Jerusalem!
Finds courage from above;
Where’er the heart forsook
Warms with the breath of love;
Where faith bids fear depart,
City of God! thou art.
In humbleness melts down;
Where self itself yields up;
Where martyrs win their crown;
Where faithful souls possess
Themselves in perfect peace.
With cheerful feet we go;
When in His steps we tread
Who trod the way of woe;
Where He is in the heart,
City of God! thou art.
Nor golden-wall’d afar,
But where Christ’s two or three
In His name gather’d are,
Be in the midst of them,
God’s own Jerusalem!