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(Jerusalem, f. 86, ll. 1–32.)
I SEE thy Form, O lovely, mild Jerusalem! Wing’d with Six Wings | |
| In the opacous Bosom of the Sleeper, lovely, threefold | |
| In Head and Heart and Reins, three Universes of love and beauty. | |
| Thy forehead bright, Holiness to the Lord! with gates of pearl | |
| Reflects Eternity beneath thy azure wings of feathery down, | 5 |
| Ribb’d, delicate, and cloth’d with feather’d gold and azure and purple, | |
| From thy white shoulders shadowing purity in holiness; | |
| Thence, feather’d with soft crimson of the ruby, bright as fire, | |
| Spreading into the azure wings which, like a canopy, | |
| Bends over thy immortal Head in which Eternity dwells. | 10 |
| Albion! belovèd Land, I see thy mountains and thy hills | |
| And valleys, and thy pleasant Cities, Holiness to the Lord! | |
| I see the Spectres of thy Dead, O Emanation of Albion! | |
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| Thy Bosom white, translucent, cover’d with immortal gems, | |
| A sublime ornament not obscuring the outlines of beauty, | 15 |
| Terrible to behold, for thy extreme beauty and perfection: | |
| Twelvefold here all the Tribes of Israel I behold | |
| Upon the Holy Land: I see the River of Life and Tree of Life; | |
| I see the New Jerusalem descending out of Heaven | |
| Between thy Wings of gold and silver, feather’d immortal, | 20 |
| Clear as the rainbow, as the cloud of the Sun’s tabernacle. | |
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| Thy Reins cover’d with Wings translucent, sometimes covering | |
| And sometimes spread abroad, reveal the flames of holiness | |
| Which like a robe covers, and like a Veil of Seraphim | |
| In flaming fire unceasing burns from Eternity to Eternity. | 25 |
| Twelvefold I there behold Israel in her Tents; | |
| A Pillar of a Cloud by day, a Pillar of Fire by night | |
| Guides them; there I behold Moab and Ammon and Amalek; | |
| There Bells of silver round thy knees, living, articulate | |
| Comforting sounds of love and harmony; and on thy feet | 30 |
| Sandals of gold and pearl; and Egypt and Assyria before me, | |
| The Isles of Javan, Philistia, Tyre, and Lebanon. | |
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