Margaret Drabble. Quotation

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"...she pictured, even at a most tender age, not the pearly gates and crystal walls and golden towers of some heavenly city, but some truly terrestrial paradise, where beautiful people in beautiful houses spoke of beautiful things.

Jerusalem the Golden
With milk and honey blest
Beneath thy contemplation
Sink heart and voice oppressed
I know not, oh, I know not
What social joys are there
What radiancy of glory
What light beyond compare.

Margaret Drabble «Jerusalem the Golden»