ELHB Hymn 560
There is a land of pure delight
Isaac Watts (1707)
Hymn Text
560. There is a land of pure delight
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1 There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Eternal day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
Where saints immortal reign;
Eternal day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
2 There everlasting spring abides,
And never-withering flowers;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.
And never-withering flowers;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This 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.
Stand dressed in living green;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.
4 But timerous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger, shivering, on the brink,
And fear to launch away.
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger, shivering, on the brink,
And fear to launch away.
5 O could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy thoughts that rise,
And view the Canaan that we love,
With unbeclouded eyes:
Those gloomy thoughts that rise,
And view the Canaan that we love,
With unbeclouded eyes:
Source noted on Hymnary: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book #560