RIGHT GLAD WAS I.

LÆtatus sum.

1.

Right glad was I when unto me,

They said with one accord,

Oh let us up to Zion-hill,

The city of our Lord!

Our feet shall stand within thy gates,

Jerusalem, our home,

And to thy temples beauty-built,

Our wearied steps shall come.

2.

Oh thither all the tribes go up,

The people of our God!

And there the golden censers smoke,

And music sounds abroad!

There incense-wreaths forever rise,

And there the Lord is known,

And there is set his judgment seat,

His glory, and his throne!

3.

Oh pray ye for Jerusalem,

Who blesseth her is blest;

Peace be within thy palaces,

And in thy temples rest!

And on her golden shrines be light,

And sunshine ever fair,

For there my father’s children dwell;

Our fathers’ God is there.