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Text: | There Is A Land Of Pure Delight |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | ST. PETER |
Composer: | Alexander Robert Reinagle |
1 There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Eternal day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
2 There everlasting spring abides
And never-with'ring flow'rs;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.
3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dressed in living green;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.
4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger shiv'ring, on the brink
And fear to launch away. A-men.
5 O could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy thoughts that rise,
And view the Canaan that we love,
With unbeclouded eyes:
6 Could we but climb where Moses stood
And view the landscape o’er,
Not Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood,
Could fright us from the shore.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | There is a land of pure delight |
Title: | There Is A Land Of Pure Delight |
Author: | Isaac Watts (1707) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1930 |
Topic: | The Christian Life: Death and Burial |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. PETER |
Composer: | Alexander Robert Reinagle (1826) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | E♭ Major |