 | Selection - 1822 - 276 pàgines
...swelling flood, Stand drest in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To...the brink, And fear to launch away. 5 O ! could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded... | |
 | David Pickering - 1822 - 446 pàgines
...sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But tinvrous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger shiv'ring on the brink, And... | |
 | 1863 - 1198 pàgines
...Dr. Watts will occur to every reader : — " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. * » » » * '• Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream,... | |
 | David Pickering - 1822 - 442 pàgines
...rollM between. 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger shiv'ring on the brink, And fear to launch away. 5 O could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love, With clear... | |
 | Central Universalist Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1823 - 408 pàgines
...sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green ; So to the Jews, old Canaan stood, While...this narrow sea, And linger, shivering on the brink, Through feaj- to launch away. Oh ! could we make our doubts remove., Those gloomy doubts that rise... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1823 - 376 pàgines
....divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green ; So to the Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shivering on the brink, And... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1823 - 258 pàgines
...expected messenger should summon them away. " Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green— So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between." She then took leave of all the pilgrims, one by one. But when her son came to her, " O my child! my... | |
 | 1824 - 418 pàgines
...swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green : So, to the Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink,...on the brink, And fear to launch away. 5 O could we make our doubts remove, — Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love, With clear,... | |
 | 1824 - 584 pàgines
...swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green : So, to the Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink,...linger shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 3 O could we make our doubts remove, — Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we... | |
 | 1824 - 138 pàgines
...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. » • i ' " , it" I ' , • ! . v , - /. ., 3 Yet timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow...linger, shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 4 Oh could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts which rise, And see the Canaan that we love,... | |
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But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering, on the brink, And fear to launch away... 
