There is a land of pure delight - Duckworth, Francis

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"Hymn tune: <b>Swanside</b>"

◈ Genre → Hymns

♯ Key D major

⁄ Time Signature 3/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Beginner

↕ Range A2 – D5

¶ Language → English

Measures 18

Texture mixed texture

Parts 2

Instruments Organ

Pages 2

CPDL # 69469

Editor Douglas Walczak

Posted 2022-05-31

License Public Domain

♫Pitch Ranges

SOPRANO ALTO

C#4 – D5

TENOR BASS

A2 – E4

¶Lyrics / 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!