Verse 1
Away with our sorrow and fear!
We soon shall recover our home;
The city of saints shall appear, (Rev. 21:2)
The day of eternity come:
From earth we shall quickly remove, (I Thess. 4:17)
And mount to our native abode, (Phil. 3:20, Heb. 11:13-16)
The house of our Father above, (John 14:2-3)
The palace of angels and God. (Heb. 12:22-23)
Verse 2
Our mourning is all at an end, (Isa. 25:8, Rev. 7:17, Rev. 21:4)
When rais’d by the life-giving Word, (John 5:25)
We see the new city descend, (Rev. 21:2)
Adorn’d as a bride for her lord: (Rev. 21:2)
The city so holy and clean (Isa. 60:18)
No sorrow can breathe in the air, (Rev. 21:4, Isa. 65:17-19)
No gloom of affliction or sin,
No shadow of evil is there. (Rev. 21:27)
Verse 3
By faith we already behold
That lovely Jerusalem here! (Rev. 21:2)
Her walls are of jasper and gold, (Rev. 21:11, Rev. 21:18-19)
As chrystal her buildings are clear: (Isa. 54:12, Rev. 21:11)
Immoveably founded in grace
She stands, as she ever hath stood,
And brightly her builder displays, (Heb. 11:10)
And flames with the glory of God. (Rev. 21:11, Rev. 21:23)
Verse 4
No need of the sun in that day
Which never is follow’d by night, (Rev. 21:23, Rev. 22:5)
Where Jesus’s beauties display
A pure and a permanent light:
The Lamb is their light and their sun, (Rev. 21:23, Isa. 60:19-20. John 8:12, John 9:5)
And lo! By reflexion they shine,
With Jesus ineffably one, (II Cor. 3:18)
And bright in effulgence divine.
Verse 5
The saints in his presence receive
Their great and eternal reward, (Rev. 22:12, Matt. 16:27)
In Jesus, in heaven, they live,
They reign in the smile of their Lord: (Rev. 22:3-4)
The flame of angelical love
Is kindled at Jesus’s face, (Matt. 18:10)
And all the enjoyment above
Consists in the RAPTUROUS GAZE. (Rev. 22:4)