Stanza 1
There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign,
In finite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
There everlasting spring abides,
And never withering flowers:
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heav’nly land from ours.
Stanza 2
Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand dressed in living green:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.
Could we but climb where Moses stood
And view the landscape o’er,
Not Jordan’s stream, not death’s cold flood,
Should fright us from the shore.
English Hymnal – Global Evangelical Church (GEC) Hymn 189