Morning and Evening Prayers for All Days of the Week / Together With Confessional, Communion, and Other Prayers and Hymns for Mornings and Evenings, and Other Occasions

by Johann Habermann

And mine ears have heard the story

Of those mansions in the sky.

Now the pure white robe of heaven

And a crown to me are given,

Now that light of joy is mine

Which shall never cease to shine.

John G. Albinus, 1652.

Tr. H. Brueckner, 1918.

Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt.

Jerusalem, thou city built on high,