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- CPDL #00038: Finale 1998
- Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-07-29). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 49 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Jordan
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: The Suffolk Harmony (1786)
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Original text and translations
English text
Original text:
There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign,
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dress'd in living green;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.
Additional verses:
There everlasting spring abides
And never with'ring flow'rs;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
that heavenly land from ours.
Yet tim'rous mortals start and shrink
to cross that narrow sea,
And linger, shiv'ring, on the brink,
too feared to launch away.
O could we make our doubts remove,
those 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
could drive us from the shore!