There is a land of pure delight (Francis Duckworth): Difference between revisions
m (Text replacement - "*{{PostedDate|2022-05" to "* {{PostedDate|2022-05") |
|||
Line 14: | Line 14: | ||
{{Instruments|Organ}} | {{Instruments|Organ}} | ||
{{Pub|1|1921}} | {{Pub|1|1921}} | ||
{{Descr|Hymn tune: Swanside}} | {{Descr|Hymn tune: <b>Swanside</b>}} | ||
{{#ExtWeb:}} | {{#ExtWeb:}} | ||
Revision as of 01:10, 5 June 2022
Music files
ICON | SOURCE |
---|---|
MusicXML | |
File details | |
Help |
- Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-05-31). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 28 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: There is a land of pure delight
Composer: Francis Duckworth
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: Organ
First published: 1921
Description: Hymn tune: Swanside
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
1 There is a land of pure delight,
where saints immortal reign;
infinite day excludes the night,
and pleasures banish pain.
2 There everlasting spring abides,
and never-withering flowers;
death, like a narrow sea, divides
that 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 timorous mortals start and shrink
to cross the narrow sea,
and linger shivering on the brink,
and fear to launch away.
5 O could we make our doubts remove,
those gloomy doubts that rise,
and see 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,
should fright us from the shore!