There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints, immortal reign.
Infinite day excludes the night
And pleasures banish pain.
Where saints, immortal reign.
Infinite day excludes the night
And pleasures banish pain.
Could we but climb where Moses stood
And view the landscape o’er.
Not Jordan’s streams north death’s cold flood
Should fright us from this shore.
There everlasting spring abides,
And never withering flowers:
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heav’nly land from ours.
O could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy thoughts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love
With unbeclouded eyes!
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There Is A Land of Pure Delight
Taken from the Gadsby Hymnal # 1022
Words – Issac Watts, 1707
Music – Brian T. Murphy and Benj Pocta, 2006.
© 2007 Red Mountain Music
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What do you think that second verse is about, and what do you think of it? I assume north should be nor?
I love the word ‘unbeclouded’, by the way!
Posted by Scott | April 7, 2008, 7:16 pmYes I think that should be nor rather than north… haha
Posted by opentoesandals | April 7, 2008, 7:29 pm