A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs ‎#XXXIV

XXXIV. A View of Heaven

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 with'ring Flowers:
Death like a narrow Sea, divides
This heavenly Land from ours.

3 Sweet Fields beyond the swelling Flood,
Stand dress'd in living green:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.

4 But tim'rous Mortals start and shrink,
To cross the narrow Sea,
And linger, shiv'ring on the Brink,
And fear to launch away.

5 Oh! 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 Landskip 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
• Title: A View of Heaven
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1774

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