African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal ‎#506

506. There Is a Land of Pure Delight

1 There is a land of pure delight
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
There everlasting spring abides,
And never-withering flowers;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.

2 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand dressed in living green;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.
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.

Text Information

• First Line: There is a land of pure delight
• Title: There Is a Land of Pure Delight
• Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
• Meter: CMD
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2011
• Scripture:
  Isaiah 35:10
• Topic: The Christian Life: Death and Life Eternal; Death; Everlasting Life; Heaven; Victory

Tune Information

• Name: VARINA
• Composer: George F. Root, 1820-1895
• Meter: CMD
• Key: D♭ Major