 THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.  The Bible Hymn-book - Pàgina 372editat per - 1860 - 372 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Howard Dorgan - 1990 - 260 pàgines
...earthly existence drags on, and I yearn to join my loved ones who have preceded me into that glory." There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.2 The pain alluded to here is often that which comes from being "left behind" when loved ones... | |
 | Canterbury Press - 1989 - 540 pàgines
...evermore My dwelling-place shall be. Scottish Psalter 1 650 For a further version of Psalm 23 see 77 460 There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To... | |
 | Alida Gersie - 1991 - 348 pàgines
...of re-incarnate beings, or at a foreseen time of resurrection. With Isaac Watts we might then say: There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pàgines
...(1. 19-20) CH; HAP; Mes; MoShBr; NOEC; OxBChV; OxBoLi; Par; PoEL-3 There Is a land of pure delight 8 e green valleys. At ninety-six * 9 Degenerate sons . (1. 1—4) ELP; NOCV; NoP; OBD; TOP; WGRP When I Survey the Wondrous Cross 9 When I survey the wondrous... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1995 - 238 pàgines
...pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Inf1nite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. II Heaven a State of Holiness There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither... | |
 | John Goldthwaite - 1996 - 397 pàgines
...underscore the obvious debt. The opening lines belong to Watt's "A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy." There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Ah, there the skies are always blue, And hearts forget to grieve, For there's never a dream but must... | |
 | Eileen Southern - 1997 - 710 pàgines
...people to believe that their wretched existence on earth would be followed by a blissful one in heaven: There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting Spring abides. And never-with'ring flowe'rs: Death, like a narrow sea divides This... | |
 | Michael O'Brien - 1993 - 484 pàgines
...Nicholas Marr (1792-1865) and his first wife, Anna Goodloe Hinton Marr; thev lived in Missouri. 32. "There is a land of pure delight, / Where saints immortal reign; / Infinite day 434 excludes the night, / And pleasures banish pain" (Isaac Watts's hymn, "There is a Land of Pure... | |
 | John Beatty - 1998 - 404 pàgines
...benumbed with cold. O </ but as if to show contempt for the weather the Third sang with great unction : "There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This... | |
 | William Gadsby - 1995 - 950 pàgines
...flee away, And we shall never, never mourn. 1022 CMIWA-TO Desiring the Heavenly Canaan. Heb. 11. 16 1 There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 O could we make our doubts remove, These gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love With... | |
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