Text: | On the evergreen shore |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | [There is a land of pure delight] |
Composer: | John B. Shaw |
1 There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
Refrain:
On the evergreen shore,
On the evergreen shore,
We will meet over there, by and by;
On the evergreen shore,
On the evergreen shore,
We will meet over there, by and by.
2 There everlasting spring abides,
And never with’ring flow’rs;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heav'nly land from ours. [Refrain]
3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dressed in living green;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between. [Refrain]
4 Oh, could we make our doubts remove,
The gloomy doubts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love
With unbeclouded eyes. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | There is a land of pure delight |
Title: | On the evergreen shore |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Refrain First Line: | On the evergreen shore |
Publication Date: | 1892 |
Topic: | Heaven |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [There is a land of pure delight] |
Composer: | John B. Shaw |