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Cities and men and nations have passed by	A
Like leaves upon an autumn's dreary sky	A
Like chaff upon the ocean billow proud	B
Like drops of rain on summer's fleecy cloud	B
Like flowers of a wilderness	C
Vanished into forgetfulness	C
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O Nineveh thou city of young Ashur's pride	D
With thy strong towers and thy bulwarks wide	D
Ah while upon thee splashed the Tigris' waters	C
How little thought thy wealth stored sons and daughters	C
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That Cyaxerses and his troops should wait	E
Three long years before thy massive gate	E
Then Medes and Persians by the torches' light	F
Should ride triumphantly thy streets by night	F
And from creation banish thee	G
O Nineveh O Nineveh	H
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And country of the pride of Mizriam's heart	I
With pyramids that speak thy wealth and art	I
Why is it that no minstrel comes who sings	C
Of all the glory of thy shepherd kings	C
Tyre why are thy walls in ruins thus	C
Why is thy name so seldom spoke by us	C
Sidon among the nations thou art fled	J
Thy joy departed and thy glory dead	J
Far gone ere all thy generations	C
Fallen nations Fallen nations	C
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And Babylon with all thy thronging bands	C
The glory of Chaldea's ancient lands	C
Thy temple where a numerous host was seen	K
Thy gardens hung to please the Midian queen	K
Where beauteous flowers smiled on their terrace beds	C
Proud kings have passed through thee and crowned heads	C
And grandeur and magnificence could view	L
In thee a resting place thy stores not few	L
Why is it thou art all alone	M
O Babylon O Babylon	N
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And Greece who shone in literature and might	F
When Marathon's broad plains saw sword and fight	F
Thy monumental ruins stand alone	M
Decay has breathed upon thy sculptured stone	M
And desolation walks thy princely halls	C
The green branch twines around thy olden walls	C
And ye who stood the ten years' siege of Troy	O
Time's fingers now your battlements annoy	O
Why is it that thy glories cease	C
O Classic Greece O Classic Greece	C
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And thou best city of olden time	P
O we might weep for thee once chosen clime	P
City where Solomon his temple reared	Q
City where gold and silver stores appeared	Q
City where priest and prophet lowly knelt	R
City where God in mortal flesh once dwelt	R
Titus and Roman soldiers laid thee low	S
The music in thy streets has ceased to flow	S
Yet wilt thou not return in joy once more	T
And Lebanon give up her cedar store	T
And vines and olives smile as now they smile	U
Yet not upon the ruin of a holy pile	U
Wilt thou Destruction's flood not stem	P
Jerusalem Jerusalem	P
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Cities and men and nations have gone by	A
Like leaves upon an Autumn's dreary sky	A
Like chaff upon the ocean billow proud	B
Like drops upon the summer's passing cloud	B
Like flowers of a wilderness	C
Vanished into forgetfulness	C

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