1 There’s a beautiful city of palaces bright,
Where there nevermore falleth the shadows of night,
And it needeth no sun, for the Lamb is the light,
Jerusalem, golden and fair.
Chorus:
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, golden and fair,
‘Mid earth’s busy thronging my heart is oft longing,
Thy rest and thy glories to share.
2 It is builded for all of the blood-washed and pure,
For the faithful who unto the end shall endure;
‘Tis the word of our God, and His promise is sure,
Jerusalem, golden and fair. [Chorus]
3 Never sorrow or sighing shall enter therein,
Never sickness or dying, or any more sin;
Thy inhabitants never shall weary again,
Jerusalem, golden and fair. [Chorus]
4 Just a few fleeting years and my race will be run;
Just a little more toil and my life’s work is done;
There I hope me to rest at the setting of sun,
Jerusalem, golden and fair. [Chorus]
Source: Light and Life Songs No. 4 #132
Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by."
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