| Location in The Sacred Harp | ||||||
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| Stanza | Denson | Cooper | ||||
| 1 |
There is a Land of pure Delight, Where Saints immortal reign: Infinite Day excludes the Night, And Pleasures banish Pain. |
Jordan 66, Stanza 1, Lines 1, 2, 3, & 4 |
Gathering Home 33, Stanza 1 (Lines 1 & 3) Heavenly Land 124t, Stanza 1 |
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| 2 |
There everlasting Spring abides, And never-with'ring Flow'rs: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This Heav'nly Land from ours. |
Heavenly Land 124t, Stanza 2 |
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| 3 |
[Sweet Fields beyond the swelling Flood, Stand dres'd in living Green: So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. |
Jordan 66, Stanza 1, Lines 5, 6, 7, & 8 |
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| 4 |
But tim'rous Mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow Sea; And linger, shiv'ring on the Brink, And fear to launch away.] |
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| 5 |
O! Could we make our Doubts remove, Those gloom Doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded Eyes! |
Jordan 66, Stanza 2, Lines 1, 2, 3, & 4 |
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| 6 |
Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the Landskip o'er Not Jordan's Streams, nor Death's cold Flood, Should fright us from the Shore. |
Jordan 66, Stanza 2, Lines 5, 6, 7 & 8 |
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