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Text: | There is a land of pure delight |
Tune: | ROCHESTER |
Media: | MIDI file |
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 with'ring flowers;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.
3.
Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dress'd in living green:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd 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 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 | |
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First Line: | There is a land of pure delight |
Title: | There is a land of pure delight |
Meter: | C.M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1854 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ROCHESTER |
Meter: | C.M. |
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MIDI file: | ![]() |