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==Music files==
#REDIRECT[[Jordan (William Billings)]]
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==General Information==
'''Title:''' ''Jordan''<br>
{{Composer|William Billings}}
{{Lyricist|Isaac Watts}}
 
{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br>
{{Genre|Sacred|Hymns}}
{{Language|English}}
'''Instruments:''' {{acap}}<br>
'''Published:''' The Suffolk Harmony (1786)<br>
 
'''Description:'''
 
'''External websites:'''
 
==Original text and translations==
 
{{Text|English}}
 
'''Original text: '''
 
There is a land of pure delight,<br>
Where saints immortal reign,<br>
Infinite day excludes the night,<br>
And pleasures banish pain.<br>
 
Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,<br>
Stand dress'd in living green;<br>
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,<br>
While Jordan roll'd between. <br>
 
'''Additional verses: '''
 
There everlasting spring abides<br>
And never with'ring flow'rs;<br>
Death, like a narrow sea, divides<br>
that heavenly land from ours.<br>
 
Yet tim'rous mortals start and shrink <br>
to cross that narrow sea,<br>
And linger, shiv'ring, on the brink,<br>
too feared to launch away.<br>
 
O could we make our doubts remove,<br>
those gloomy doubts that rise,<br>
And see the Canaan that we love <br>
with unbeclouded eyes!<br>
 
Could we but climb where Moses stood,<br>
and view the landscape o'er,<br>
Not Jordan's stream nor death's cold flood<br>
could drive us from the shore!<br>
 
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