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678a | The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892#678b | 678c |
Text: | There is a land of pure delight |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | [There is a land of pure delight] |
Composer: | Geo. Garrett, Mus. Doc. |
1 There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Eternal day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
2 There everlasting spring abides,
And never-fading flowers;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.
3 Bright fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand dressed in living green;
So to the Jews fair Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.
4 But timorous mortals start and shrink,
To cross the narrow sea;
And linger, trembling 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 faith's illumined 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 (1709) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1894 |
Topic: | Home and Personal Use |
Notes: | Tune name in index: BEULAH |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [There is a land of pure delight] |
Composer: | Geo. Garrett, Mus. Doc. |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | E Major |