Ancient and Modern ‎#804

804. There is a land of pure delight

1 There is a land of pure delight,
where saints immortal reign;
infinite day excludes the night,
and pleasures banish pain.

2 There everlasting spring abides,
and never-withering flowers;
death, like a narrow sea, divides
that 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 timorous mortals start and shrink
to cross the narrow sea,
and linger shivering on the brink,
and fear to launch away.

5 O could we make our doubts remove,
those gloomy doubts that rise,
and see 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,
should fright us from the shore!

Text Information

• First Line: There is a land of pure delight
• Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2013
• Scripture:
  Deuteronomy 34:1-2
  ;
  Joshua 3:1-17
  ;
  Revelation 22:5
• Topic: Death and Bereavement; Heaven

Tune Information

• Name: BEULAH
• Composer: George Mursell Garrett (1834-1897)
• Meter: CM
• Key: E♭ Major