There Is A Land Of Pure Delight
- Words:
- Isaac Watts
- Music:
- George F. Root, 1849
Sheet music
- 1There is a land of pure delight,Where Christ immortal reigns;In finite day excludes the night,And pleasures banish pains;There everlasting spring abides,And never-with’ring flow’rs:And but a narrow sea dividesThat heav’nly land from ours.
- 2Sweet fields beyond the swelling floodStand dressed in living green;So to the Jews old Canaan stood,While Jordan rolled between.But tim'rous mortals start and shrinkTo cross this narrow sea;And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,And fear to launch away.
- 3O, could we make our doubts remove,These gloomy doubts that rise,And see the Canaan that we loveWith 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.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1707, the words are in 1,477 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
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