Description
THERE IS A LAND OF PURE DELIGHT
Scripture: Deuteronomy 8:7
Key: G
Time Signature: 4/4
Hymn Status: Public Domain (This hymn is free to use for display and print)
Terms of Use: None
Lyrics
Verse 1: There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green: So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Verse 2: There everlasting spring abides, And never-with’ring flow’rs: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav’nly land from ours. But timid mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea; And linger, shiv’ring on the brink, And fear to launch away.
Verse 3: O could we make our doubts remove Those gloomy tho’ts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded eyes! 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.
