| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Dying in Jerusalem | | By Thomas Ragg |
| | | JERUSALEM! Jerusalem! | |
| Thou city of the blest, | |
| I come, beneath thy hallowed soil | |
| To lay my bones to rest. | |
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| It is not mine to see thee rise | 5 |
| In glory from the dust; | |
| But God, the God of Abraham, | |
| Is kind as well as just. | |
| And, happy but to die in thee, | |
| I hail the sacred ground | 10 |
| Where rest from all their wanderings | |
| The sons of Jacob found. | |
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| Jerusalem! Jerusalem! | |
| Thy towers shall rise again | |
| When comes the Lord’s anointed One | 15 |
| In majesty to reign. | |
| My sun will shortly set, but thou | |
| In glory shall appear; | |
| Thy King, The God of all the earth; | |
| Thy name, “The Lord is here.” | 20 |
| And Gentiles who have spurned thee long | |
| Shall make the glory known; | |
| While all conspire to honor thee, | |
| My father’s land! my own! | | | | |
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