When shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls / And pearly gates behold?

The narrowness of the imagination of the old masters is generally depicted in their canvases. Heaven to them was a serious business of pearly gates, harps, halos, and aërial flights on ambient pale clouds.

I'd toss for pennies on the front steps of the New Jerusalem or set up a faro layout just outside the Pearly Gates.

By the time they got a doctor down / I was already dead / And I'll never understand why the man / Standing in the Pearly Gates said…

When I'm at the pearly gates / This'll be on my videotape, my videotape

Pearly gates

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