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The Celeſtial Country.

37.

New manſion of new people,
Whom God's own love and light
Promote, increaſe, make holy,
Identify, unite!
Thou City of the Angels!
Thou City of the Lord!
Whoſe everlaſting muſic
Is the glorious decachord!8

38.

And there the band of Prophets
United praiſe aſcribes,
And there the twelvefold chorus
Of Iſrael's ranſomed tribes,
The lily-beds of virgins,
The roſes' martyr-glow,
The cohort of the Fathers
Who kept the Faith below.

39.

And there the Sole-Begotten

Is Lord in regal ſtate—