There is a land of pure delight (Francis Duckworth)

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• (Posted 2022-05-31)  CPDL #69469:     

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-05-31).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 28 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

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Title: There is a land of pure delight
Composer: Francis Duckworth
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

First published: 1921
Description: Hymn tune: Swanside

Original text and translations

English text

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
that 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 the narrow sea,
and linger shivering on the brink,
and fear to launch away.

5 O 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!