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The Celeſitial Country.
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Then all the halls of Syon
For aye ſhall be complete,
And in the Land of Beauty,
All things of beauty meet.

23.

For thee, O dear, dear Country!
Mine eyes their vigils keep;
For very love, beholding
Thy happy name, they weep.
The mention of thy glory
Is unction to the breaſt,
And medicine in ſickneſs,
And love, and life, and reſt.

24.

O one, O onely Manſion!
O Paradiſe of Joy!
Where tears are ever baniſhed,
And ſmiles have no alloy,
Beſide thy living waters
All plants are, great and ſmall,

The cedar of the foreſt,