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Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.

Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897)

140. The City of God

O THOU not made with hands,

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!

Where’er the gentle heart

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.

Thou art where’er the proud

In humbleness melts down;

Where self itself yields up;

Where martyrs win their crown;

Where faithful souls possess

Themselves in perfect peace.

Where in life’s common ways

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.

Not throned above the skies,

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!