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Thread #107323   Message #2224441
Posted By: Georgiansilver
29-Dec-07 - 01:55 PM
Thread Name: Biblical Place Names Songs
Subject: RE: Biblical Place Names Songs
Azizi...these lyrics may be found online but here they are.
Best wishes, Mike.


Jerusalem
(aka And Did Those Feet In Ancient Times)
Words by William Blake (1757-1827)


This hymn is about celebration and praise, making it suitable as the first hymn sung at the beginning of the service, which is in praise of God in whose presence everyone has assembled.


And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountain green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.


Jerusalem was my school hymn......
My grandmother used to be always singing the next one.


When mothers of Salem
Their children brought to Jesus,
The stern disciples drove them back
And bade them depart:But Jesus saw
them ere they fled,
And sweetly smiled, and kindly said,
"Suffer little children to come unto Me."

"For I will receive them,
And fold them in My bosom;
I'll be a Shepherd to those lambs,
O drive them not away!
For if their hearts to Me they give,
They shall with Me in glory live:
Suffer little children to come unto me."

How kind our Saviour
To bid those children welcome!
But there are many thousands who
Have never heard His name;
The Bible they have never read;
They know not that the Saviour said:
"Suffer little children to come unto me."

O soon may the heathen
Of every tribe and nation
Fulfil Thy blessed word, and cast
Their idols all away;
O shine upon them from above,
And show Thyself the God of love;
Teach the little children
To come unto Thee.