Jerusalem

| JERUSALEM |

j DEC. 9, 1917

| "A white flag announced the surrender of the Holy City"

| High o'er Jerusalem a flag of white

Displaced the Moslem's crescent and the star; |

I Once more for Christ the gift of Britain's might, |

The Holy City, prey of endless war.

| From those far days when David was its king

Its stones have echoed to the trumpet calls;

| The passing years but came new foes to bring,

And countless hosts have battered at its walls. |

| There the Assyrian sword did bloody work;

The cruel Persians through its gateway swept; |

I The Greek and Roman, Arab and the Turk;

j The rule of Babylon its daughters wept.

I Thou who didst suffer there upon the tree,

I Still for Thy reign of Love our Hope shall be!

I ALFRED LAMBOURNE j

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