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jordan - william billings lyrics

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there is a land of pure delight
where saints immortal reign;
infinite day excludes the night
and pleasures banish pain;

there everlasting spring abides
and never*with’ring flowers:
death, like a narrow sea, divides
this heavenly land from ours

sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
stand dress’d in living green;
so to the jews old canaan stood
while jordan roll’d between

but tim’rous mortals start and shrink
to cross this narrow sea
and linger, shiv’ring on the brink
and fear to launch away

o could we make our doubts remove
those gloomy fears that rise
and see the canaan that we love
with unbeclouded eyes;

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 that shore

- william billings lyrics

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