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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 19, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 3.

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Bethlehem.

By Bonar

THEY speak to me of princely Tyre, That old Phœnician gem, Great Sidon, daughter of the north; But I will speak of Bethlehem.
They speak of Rome and Babylon,— What can compare with them? So let them praise their pride and pomp; But I will speak of Bethlehem.
They praise the hundred-gated Thebes, Old Mizraim's diadem, The city of the sand-girt Nile, But I will speak of Bethlehem.
They speak of Athens, star of Greece, Her hill of Mars, her Academe; Haunts of old wisdom and fair art, But I will speak of Bethlehem.
Dear city, where Heaven met with earth, Whence sprang the rod from Jesse's stem, Where Jacob's star first shone:—of thee I'll speak, O happy Bethlehem! [Bonar.