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DYING IN JERUSALEM, by                    
First Line: Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Last Line: My father's land! My own!
Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Judaism


JERUSALEM! Jerusalem!
Thou city of the blest,
I come, beneath thy hallowed soil
To lay my bones to rest.

It is not mine to see thee rise
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
Where rest from all their wanderings
The sons of Jacob found.

Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Thy towers shall rise again
When comes the Lord's anointed One
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."
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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