The Cyber Hymnal ‎#10000

10000. Palestine Song

1 First the line on coast we make;r /> Merom next, a marshy lake;r /> Then the Sea of Galilee,r /> Exactly west of Carmel, see.r /> The Jordan river flows thro’ bothr /> To the Dead Sea on the south;r /> And the Great Sea westward liesr /> Stretching far as sunset skies.r />

2 Looking northward you may viewr /> Lebanon and Hermon, too;r /> Carmel and Gilboa grim,r /> Tabor, Ebal, Gerizim.r /> Near Jerusalem we seer /> Olivet and Calvary.r /> Judea’s hills rise south and westr /> Of lonely Nebo’s lowering crest.r />

3 On Zion stands Jerusalem;r /> Six miles south is Bethlehem;r /> On Olive’s slopes is Bethany,r /> Bethabara by Jordan see.r /> Our Savior drank at Sychar’s well;r /> Of boyhood days let Nazareth tell;r /> At Cana water turned to wine,r /> Showed our Lord to be divine.r />

4 Capernaum by Galilee,r /> Near its twin Bethsaida see;r /> Cæsarea Phillippir /> At Hermon’s base is seen to lie;r /> Along the coast these three appear,r /> Gaza, Joppa, Cæsarea;r /> South to Bethel we may go,r /> To Hebron next and Jericho.r />

5 From heathen Tyre materials camer /> To build a temple to God’s name;r /> The sorrowing widow’s son at Nainr /> Jesus raised to life again.r /> See Dan, where Jordan’s waters rise,r /> Beersheba nearer tropic skies;r /> North and south these cities stand,r /> And mark the length of Israel’s land.

Text Information

• First Line: First the line on coast we make
• Title: Palestine Song
• Author: C. W. Ross (1894)
• Language: English
• Source: Song and Study for God's Little Ones by Bertha F. Vella (Chicago: R. R. McCabe and Company, 1894)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: [First the line on coast we make]
• Composer: Alexander Zarnock (arr.)
• Key: G Major
• Copyright: Public Domain