...from it). This hymn similarly speaks of a "land" where "Inf1nite day excludes the night" and where Everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers:...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. In Dickinson's poem, not the sea to cross, but the "Other" shore is "little." And yet, it too represents...

...verses here first appeared in "Prattle" (E, 29 Jan. 1893: 6). Cf. Isaac Watts (1674-1748), "Hymn 66": There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Cross ] The verses here first appeared in "Prattle" (E, 21 Oct. 1895: 6). Cui Bono? ] A Latin phrase...

...Your Guh/Grace. In Memory: Sir Thomas Browne. THE ABBESS OF X Requiescat in Pace. EVERYONE (Sings:) There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign. Infinite day excludes the night And pleasure banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never'withering flowers. Death like a narrow...

...members of Calvary Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and have four grown children and two granddaughters. There is a land of pure delight, where saints immortal...day excludes the night, and pleasures banish pain. O! the delights, the heav'nly joys, the glories of the place, Where Jesus sheds the brightest beams...

...suggest a beauty in the journey from life to death that is in ironic juxtaposition to its actuality: There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign. Infinite day excludes the night And pleasure banish pain. There everlasting spring abides. And never-withering flowers. Death like a narrow...

...succeeds the next in the course of time. "There is a land of pure delight," Isaac Watts assures us, "where saints immortal reign; infinite day excludes the night, and pleasures banish pain" (There is a Land of Pure Delight). Whatever the present circumstances, press on. Whatever the distractions,...

...imaginings of New Canaan dovetailed with a classic American conception of itself as the Promised Land: There is a Land of pure Delight, Where Saints immortal...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,...

...that everything which is not Christian is gloomy and dark) by William Williams, Pantycelyn (h). (a) 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, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous...

...hills of heavenly light, And leave the weltering world in fire. 39 And he delights in heavenly bliss: 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...

..."When Christ ascended triumphantly from star to star he left the gates of Heaven ajar." —Longfellow "There is a land of pure delight, where saints immortal reign; Infinite day exclude the night, and pleasures banish pain." —Isaac Watts "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth,...