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==General information==
==General information==
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''There is a land of pure delight'' is a hymn by [[Isaac Watts]], published as Hymn 66 in Book 2 of his ''Hymns and Spiritual Songs''.


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There is a land of pure delight,
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Where saints immortal reign;
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Infinite day excludes the night,
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And pleasures banish pain;
 
There everlasting spring abides,
And never-with'ring flowers:
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly 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.


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O could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy fears that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love,
With unbeclouded eyes;


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Could we but climb where Moses stood,
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And view the landscape o'er,
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Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood,
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Should fright us from that shore.
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Revision as of 18:46, 11 May 2014

General information

There is a land of pure delight is a hymn by Isaac Watts, published as Hymn 66 in Book 2 of his Hymns and Spiritual Songs.

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Text and translations

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There 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 flowers:
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly 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 fears 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,
Should fright us from that shore.

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