Hail the Glorious Golden City
Hail the Glorious Golden City
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Felix Adler, 1878
| Hail the glorious golden city, Pictured by the seers of old! Everlasting light shines o'er it, Wondrous tales of it are told: Only righteous men and women Dwell within its gleaming wall; Wrong is banished from its borders, Justice reigns supreme o'er all. | 2. We are builders of that city, All our joys and all our groans Help to rear its shining ramparts; All our lives are building stones: Whether humble or exalted, All are called to ask divine; All must aid alike to carry Forward one sublime design. |
| 3. And the work that we have builded, Oft with bleeding hands and tears, Oft in error, oft in anguish, Will not perish with our years: It will live and shine transfigured, In the final reign of right; It will pass into the splendors Of the city of the light. |