The Plymouth Sabbath School Collection of Hymns and Tunes ‎#174

174. 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
This 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 this narrow sea,
And linger, shivering on the brink.
And fear to launch away.

5 Oh, could we make our doubts remove,
These 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
• Publication Date: 1865
• Notes: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: TAPPAN
• Composer: Geo. Kingsley
• Meter: C. M.
• Key: A Major