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Text: | There is a Land of Pure Delight |
Author: | Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 |
Tune: | SOHO |
Composer: | Sir Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896 |
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
This heavenly land from ours.
3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood,
Stand drest in living green:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.
4 But timorous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger, shivering on the brink,
And fear to launch away.
5 Oh, could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy thoughts 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.
Amen.
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, 1674-1748 (1707) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1901 |
Topic: | Eternity |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SOHO |
Composer: | Sir Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896 |
Meter: | C. M. |