 | Bible - 1835 - 692 pages
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly...ours. $ 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... | |
 | Villeroi (fict. name.) - 1835 - 304 pages
...brought them to Willy's bedside, and they all began to sing : ' There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never with'ring flowers. Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours,* &c. " It was a... | |
 | 1835 - 604 pages
...angelic choir. HYMN 199. (CM) 1 THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Eternal day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. % There everlasting spring abides, And never-fading flow'rs; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Bright fields,... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 124 pages
...Forest that he was inspired to write later the familiar words : "There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign. Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - History - 1980 - 376 pages
...claim to literal vision which rejoiced in the New Jerusalem: There is a land of pure Delight, Where Saints immortal reign; Infinite Day excludes the Night,...banish Pain. There everlasting Spring abides, And never-withering Flowers; Death like a narrow Sea divides This Heav'nly Land from ours. Sweet Fields... | |
 | Poetry - 1982 - 348 pages
...Lathrop 266 . THERE IS A LAND There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Eternal day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain; There everlasting Spring abides , And never -whith'ring flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond... | |
 | Madeleine Forell Marshall, Janet Todd - Music - 1982 - 196 pages
...famous hymn "A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy" (LXVI): 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 This... | |
 | Kenneth W. Osbeck - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 332 pages
...throng about him, saying, 'A man is born." Henry Ward Beecher ' There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain." FACE TO FACE "Oh, sometimes my faith sees Jesus coming o'er the stormy sea. And the waves are stilled,... | |
 | Canterbury Press - Religion - 1989 - 540 pages
...Scottish Psalter 1 650 For a further version of Psalm 23 see 77 460 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 This... | |
 | Alida Gersie - Performing Arts - 1991 - 348 pages
...foreseen time of resurrection. With Isaac Watts we might then say: There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night,...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.1 If we did indeed... | |
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THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 
