10.9.07
Watts, Isaac - lost verses of "Jesus shall reign"
Have you heard these lost verses of "Jesus shall reign"?
Behold the islands with their kings,
And Europe her best tribute brings;
From north and south the princes meet
To pay their homage at his feet.There Persia, glorious to behold,
There India shines in eastern gold,
And barb’rous nations at his word
Submit and bow, and own their Lord.Where he displays his healing power,
Death and the curse are known no more.
In him the tribes of Adam boast
More blessings than their father lost.
Eloquent Christan triumphalism and thinly veiled anti-Semitism anyone?
See the complete hymn in the Harvard Classics, Vol. 45, Part 2.
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