William Blake’s Jerusalem
The following words by William Blake are famous throughout the world because they are set to music and sung as the hymn Jerusalem
This is a very famous poem about England
The poem is really quite interesting from the theological point of view because It is quite clear from the Bible that Jesus remain local to Palestine.
Jerusalem
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear!
O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green and pleasant land.
Those lines are very well known because they form the lyric of the hymn Jerusalem.
