O heavenly Jerusalem\nOf everlasting halls,\nThrice blessèd are the people\nThou storest in thy walls.\n2. Thou art the golden mansion,\nWhere saints for ever sing,\nThe seat of God’s own chosen,\nThe palace of the King.\n3. There God for ever sitteth,\nHimself of all the crown;\nThe Lamb, the light that shineth\nAnd never goeth down.\n4. Nought to this seat approacheth\nTheir sweet peace to molest;\nThey sing their God for ever,\nNor day nor night they rest.\n5. Calm hope from thence is leaning;\nTo her our longings bend,\nNo short-lived toil shall daunt us\nFor joys that cannot end.\n6. To Christ, the sun that lightens\nHis Church above, below,\nTo Father, and to Spirit,\nAll things created bow.\n272. A FEW MORE YEARS\nA few more years shall roll,\nA few more seasons come,\nAnd we shall be with those that rest\nIn peace beyond the tomb.\n1 01\nThen, O my Lord, prepare\nMy soul for that great day;\nO wash me in thy precious blood,\nAnd take my sins away.\n2. A few more suns shall set\nO’er these dark hills of time,\nAnd we shall be where suns are not,\nA far serener clime.\n3. A few more storms shall beat\nOn this wild rocky shore,\nAnd we shall be where tempests cease,\nAnd surges swell no more.\n4. A few more struggles here,\nA few more partings o’er,\nA few more toils, a few more tears,\nAnd we shall weep no more.\n5. ‘Tis but a little while\nAnd he shall come again,\nWho died that we may live, who lives\nThat we with him may reign.