THE BEAUTIFUL CITY by Vesta N. Cudworth

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1867

THE BEAUTIFUL CITY.

By Vesta N. Cudworth

AIR.—“Columbia, Thou Gem of the Ocean,” or “Red, White and Blue.”

The beautiful city is coming, Long, long by the prophets foretold; To earth, all radiant as morning, Adorned with jasper and gold. The loved ones that glide o’er its pavements Of gold, will no longer be sad; For the nation that keepeth thy commandments, Shall enter its gates and be glad.

I have heard there were mansions preparing, By One that was nailed to the tree; And amid all those many bright mansions, My soul, is there not one for me? While earth has been gay, I have fasted, And bowed down in grief with the sad; With the nation that keepeth thy commandments, That will enter its gates and be glad.

I have heard there were crowns, too, preparing, More fair than the dawning of light; And for those that won many to glory Were sparkling like stars in the night. Though fame wreathes the brow of the worldling, While mine wears the thorn and is sad, With the nation that keepeth thy commandments, I will enter its gates and be glad.

Then give a harp with the victors, That stand on the beautiful sea, And gladly I’ll linger in sorrow, Till Christ has prepared it for me; Though tempest-tossed here, and afflicted, Bereaved, persecuted and sad, With the nation that keepeth thy commandments, I will enter its gates and be glad.

VESTA N. CUDWORTH.

Springfield, Mass.