There is a land of pure delight

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.

Settings by composers

• Daniel Belknap — Shoreham  English SATB
• William Billings — Jordan  English SATB
• John Bacchus Dykes — There is a land of pure delight  English SATB
• George M. Garrett — There is a land of pure delight  English SATB
• Oliver Holden — Hanley Green  English SATB
• John Jenkins Husband — Hephzibah  English SATB
• William Marsh — There is a land of pure delight  English SATB
• Thomas Wright — There is a land of pure delight  English SATB

 

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-with'ring flowers:
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.

3  Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand dress'd in living green;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.

4  But tim'rous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,
And fear to launch away.

5  O could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy fears 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 that shore.
 

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