Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: There is a land of pure delight
Topic: View of Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 299
Page Number: 323, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThere 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 dress'd in living green;
So, tot he Jews, old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.
There everlasting spring abides,
And never-with'ring flowers;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heav'nly land from ours.
But tim'rous mortals start and shrink,
To cross this narrow sea;
And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,
And fear to lauch away.
O! could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy doubts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love,
With unbeclouded eyes:
Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o'er,
Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood,
Could fright us from the shore.