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" While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this 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... "
The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 611
1863
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A collection of Psalms and hymns; designed for public worship

1831 - 534 pages
...remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love With faith's illumined eyes. 5 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's waves, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. 207. 1 O LORD, assist us to rejoice,...
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The Poetic Reader: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors ...

Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...abides, And never withering flow'rs ; Death, like a narrow soа, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3. Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood", Stand dress'd...Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4. But tim'i ous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,...
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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church ...

Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1832 - 558 pages
...flood, Stand drest in living green ; J5o to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er ; Not Jordan's stream, nor death's eold flood, Should fright us from the shore. yfexford— p. 111.] HYMN 540. 6 lines 8s, THOU, Lord,...
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The Christian Psalmist: Or, Hymns Selected and Original. With an ...

James Montgomery - Hymns, English - 1832 - 484 pages
...like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling Hood, Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering, on the brink,...
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Blake: or; The Huts of America

Martin R. Delany - Fiction - 1971 - 356 pages
...soul now inspiring anew his breast, Henry raised in solemn tones amidst the lonely wilderness: Could I but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er; Not Jordan's streams, nor death's cold flood, Could drive me from the shore! To the right of where he stood was...
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Isaac Watts Remembered

David Guy Fountain - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 124 pages
...pure delight Where saints immortal reign. Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd...green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood While Jordan rolled between." No. 10. Chapter 4 Tutor and Pastor: i6g6-ijo6 (aged 22-32). The next entry in Watts's...
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'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical ...

E. S. Shaffer - History - 1980 - 376 pages
...narrow Sea divides This Heav'nly Land from ours. Sweet Fields beyond the swelling Flood Stand drest in living Green: So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. (Watts) The Book of Revelation lent itself with particular pyrotechnical ease to the eighteenth-century...
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English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century

Madeleine Forell Marshall, Janet Todd - Music - 1982 - 196 pages
...narrow Sea divides This Heav'nly Land from ours. 3 Sweet Fields beyond the swelling Flood Stand drest in living Green: So to the Jews Old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But timorous Mortals start and shrink To cross the narrow Sea, And linger shivering on the Brink,...
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742 Heart-Warming Poems

Poetry - 1982 - 348 pages
...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between; Could we bat climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er Mot Jordan's stream,...
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Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9)

Herman Melville - Fiction - 1983 - 1470 pages
...cordage rang, his steady notes were heard, — "Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green. So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between." Never did those sweet words sound more sweetly to me than then. They were full of...
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