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1. Last night I lay a sleeping, there came a dream so fair,
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I stood in old Jerusalem beside
the temple there.
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I heard the children singing,
and ever as they sang,
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me thought
the voice of angels from Heav’n in answer rang;
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me
thought the voice of a...ngels from Heav’n in answer
rang:
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“Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Lift up your gates and sing,
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Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna to your King !”
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2. And then me thought my dream was chang’d,
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the
streets no longer rang,
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hush’d were the glad hosannas the little children
sang.
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The moon grew dark with
mystery, the morn was cold and chill,
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as
the shadow of a cross arose upon a lonely hill,
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as
the shadow of a cross arose upon a lonely hill.
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“Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Hark! how the angels
sing,
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Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna to your King !”
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3. And once again the scene was chang’d, new
earth there seem’d to be,
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I saw the Holy City beside the
tideless sea;
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the
light of God was on its streets, the gates were open wide,
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and
all who would might enter, and no one was denied.
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No need of moon or stars by
night, or sun to shine by day,
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it
was the New Jerusalem, that would not pass away,
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it
was the new Jerusalem, that would not pass away.
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“Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Sing, for the night is o’er
!
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Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna for evermore !
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Hosanna in the highest - - - Hosanna for evermore !”
(orig. = capo 3rd) (Frederick E.
Weatherly / Michael Maybrick - 1892)