Canaan

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1. Ó esperança divinal!
Em mim será perfeito o amor,
O dom de meu Jesus.
Minha alma em vôo triumphal,
Almeja e canta o favor
Que espero já de Deus.

2. Já avistei da promissão
A terra onde o Israel
De Deus descançará.
De Pisgah olhando, bellas são
As vistas. Rios de leite e mel!
Transbordam acolá.

3. De fructos abundancia dá
A terra além do rio Jordão,
E todo o dom de Deus.
Emmanuel habita lá,
E guarda aos que d'elle são,
Na paz dos altos céus.

4. Na santa patria, Canaan,
Já quero sem demora entrar,
E a terra possuir.
Agora a peregrinação
Das duvidas me vae findar
E santo hei de ser.

Translator: Justus Henry Nelson

Born 22 December 1850 in Menomonee Falls, WI. He was a missionary to Belém, Pará, Brazil at the mouth of the Amazon River and established the first Protestant church in the Amazon basin. He translated a number of hymns into Portuguese. Go to person page >

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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First Line: Ó esperança divinal
Title: Canaan
Author: Charles Wesley (1742)
Translator: Justus Henry Nelson
Language: Portuguese
Publication Date: 2019
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 2019.

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