Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: There is a land of pure delight
Topic: Death/Not to be Feared
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: J Rink
Meter: CM
Tune: Varina
Hymn Number: 390
Page Number: 136, 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.
There everlasting Spring abides,
And never-with'ring flow'rs;
Death, like a narow sea, divides
This heav'nly land from ours.
Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dress'd in living green;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.
But tim'rous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger, shiv'ring, on the brink,
And fear to launch away.
O could we make our doubts remove--
Those gloomy doubts that rise--
And see the Canaan that we love,
With unbeclouded eyes;
Cold 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.