The Southern harmony, and musical companion containing a choice collection of tunes, hymns, psalms, odes, and anthems |
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[There is a land of pure delight] |
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[There is a land of pure delight]
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There is a land of pure delight,Where saints immortal reign,
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
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There everlasting spring abides,And never with'ring flowers;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.
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Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood,Stand dress'd in living green:
So the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.
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But timorous mortals start and shrinkTo cross this narrow sea,
And linger, shivering, on the brink,
And fear to launch away.
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Oh! could we make our doubts remove,Those gloomy doubts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love,
With unbeclouded eyes.
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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.
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