Common Praise ‎#597

597. 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: 2000
• Scripture:
  Deuteronomy 34:1-4
  ;
  Hebrews 2:14-15
  ;
  Hebrews 11:14-16
  ;
  Joshua 3:14-17
  ;
  Revelation 21:23-25
• Topic: Proper 14: Year C; Proper 25: Year A
• Notes: Alternative tune MENDIP 102

Tune Information

• Name: BEULAH
• Composer: G. M. Garrett, 1834-1897
• Meter: CM
• Key: E♭ Major