804. There is a land of pure delight

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!

Text Information
First Line: There is a land of pure delight
Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2013
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Death and Bereavement; Heaven
Tune Information
Name: BEULAH
Composer: George Mursell Garrett (1834-1897)
Meter: CM
Key: E♭ Major



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