O Holy City, Seen of John (EN 6085)

EN 6085 O Holy City, Seen of John

Rev.21.10

Versi Version 1

1

O holy city, seen of John,

Where Christ the Lamb, doth reign,

Within whose foursquare walls shall come

No night, nor need, nor pain,

And where the tears are wiped from eyes

That shall not weep again.

2

Hark, how from men whose lives are held

More cheap than merchandise,

From women struggling sore for bread,

From little children’s cries,

There swells the sobbing human plaint

That bids thy walls arise.

3

O shame to us who rest content

While lust and greed for gain

In street and shop and tenement

Wring gold from human pain,

And bitter lips in blind despair

Cry “Christ hath died in vain!”

4

Give us, O God, the strength to build

The city that hath stood

Too long a dream, whose laws are love,

Whose crown is servanthood,

And where the sun that shineth is

God’s grace for human good.

5

Already in the mind of God

That city riseth fair:

Lo, how its splendor challenges

The souls that greatly dare;

Yea, bids us seize the whole of life

And build its glory there.

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