George Mursell Garrett feat. Manchester Cathedral Choir, Jeffrey Makinson, Christopher Stokes & Unknown Artist -
The Complete New English Hymnal, Vol. 18
Beulah "There Is a Land of Pure Delight"
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-withering flowers;
Death, like a 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.
But timorous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger shivering on the brink,
And fear to launch away.
O could we make our doubts remove,
These gloomy doubts 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 the shore!
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
There everlasting spring abides,
And never-withering flowers;
Death, like a 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.
But timorous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger shivering on the brink,
And fear to launch away.
O could we make our doubts remove,
These gloomy doubts 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 the shore!
Credits
Writer(s): Isaac Watts, Grayston Ives, George Mursell Garrett
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Other Album Tracks
- King's Weston "From the Eastern Mountains"
- Vruechten "This Joyful Eastertide"
- Dùn Aluinn "Walking in a Garden" (Arr. A. Hutchings for Choir & Organ)
- Salisbury "Holy Spirit Ever Dwelling"
- Solothurn "Around the Throne of God a Band" (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Choir & Organ)
- Ad tuum nomen "He Who Bore Witness by a Good Confession" (Arr. M. Shaw for Choir & Organ)
- Boyce "Palms of Glory, Raiment Bright"
- Psalm 118 "This Is the Day of the Lord"
- Royal Oak "All Things Bright and Beautiful" (Arr. M. Shaw for Choir & Organ)
- Draw Nigh and Take the Body of the Lord
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