Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: There is a land of pure delight (FL)

Hymnal: The Pilgrim's Hymn Book

Date: 1816

Compiler: Joseph Thomas

Publisher/Printer: J Foster

First Line: There is a land of pure delight

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

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Meter: CM

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Hymn Number: XXXI

Page Number: 043, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

There is a land of pure delight,

Where saints immortal reign;

Infinite day excludes the night,

And pleasures banish pain.



Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,

Stand drest in living green;

So to the Jews old Canaan stood,

While Jordan roll'd between.



There everlasting spring abides,

And never with'ring flow'rs;

Death, like a narrow sea divides

This heavenly land from ours.



But tim'rous mortals stand and shrink

To cross this narrow sea-

And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,

And fear to launch away.



O could we make those doubts remove,

Those gloomy doubts that rise,

And view the Canaan that we love,

With unbeclouded eyes.



Could we but climb where Moses stood,

And view the landscape o'er,

Not Jordan's streams nor death's cold flood,

Could fright us from the shore.