American Lutheran Hymnal ‎#298

298. There Is A Land Of Pure Delight

1 There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Eternal day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.

2 There everlasting spring abides
And never-with'ring flow'rs;
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.

4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger shiv'ring, on the brink
And fear to launch away. A-men.

5 O could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy thoughts that rise,
And view the Canaan that we love,
With unbeclouded eyes:

6 Could we but climb where Moses stood
And view the landscape o’er,
Not Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood,
Could fright us from the shore.

Text Information

• First Line: There is a land of pure delight
• Title: There Is A Land Of Pure Delight
• Author: Isaac Watts (1707)
• Meter: C. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1930
• Topic: The Christian Life: Death and Burial

Tune Information

• Name: ST. PETER
• Composer: Alexander Robert Reinagle (1826)
• Meter: C. M.
• Key: E♭ Major