The New Christian Hymnal ‎#340

340. There Is a Land of Pure Delight

1. There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Eternal day excludes the night,
And pleausres banish pain.
There everlasting spring abides,
And never-with'ring flow'rs:
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heav'nly land from ours.

2. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand dressed in living green;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled 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.

3. Oh, 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,
Nor Jordan's stream nor death's cold flood
Should fright us from the shore.
Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: There is a land of pure delight
• Title: There Is a Land of Pure Delight
• Author: Rev. Isaac Watts (1707)
• Meter: C M D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1929
• Topic: The Future Life: Death and Heaven

Tune Information

• Name: VARINA
• Arranger: Geo. F. Root (1849)
• Meter: C M D
• Incipit: 55551 33351 1123
• Key: D Major