Classic Poem

As John the Apostle saw it then,
saw I that City of noble fame,
Jerusalem, new and royally dight,
as it was come from Heaven adown
The Burgh was all of burning gold,
burnish'd bright as gleaming glass,
with glorious gems beneath it set,
with twelve steps rising from the base,
foundations twelve, with tenons rich,
and every slab a special stone;
as in Apocalypse this same Burgh
John the Apostle pictureth well