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Arranger: George F. Root; Composer: Christian H. Rinck
Published in 11 hymnals


Arranger: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

Composer: Christian H. Rinck

b. Feb. 18, 1770, Elgersburg, Thuringia, d. Aug. 7, 1846, Darmstadt; German organist and composer Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Arranger: George F. Root
Composer: Christian H. Rinck
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
Incipit: 55551 33351 1123
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Texts

There is a land of pure delight

There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
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I sing th'almighty power of God

We sing the mighty power of God
that made the mountains rise,
that spread the flowing seas abroad
and built the lofty skies.
We sing the wisdom that ordained
the sun to rule the day;
the moon shines full at his command,
and all the stars obey.
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