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Copper Sun (Cullen)/Lines Written in Jerusalem

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4122773Copper Sun — Lines Written in JerusalemCountee Cullen

Lines Written in Jerusalem[1]

A CITY builded on a hill may flauntIts glory in the sunken valley’s face,And ways the Nazarene has trod may vauntA credible inheritance of grace.Your very stones, Jerusalem, can sing:“He would have taken us beneath His wing.”
  1. August 1926