There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign,
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.

Chorus:

O heaven, sweet heaven!
Home of the blest!
How I long to be there,
In its glories to share,
And to lean on my Savior’s breast.

There everlasting spring abides,
And never with’ring flow’rs;
Death, like a narrow sea divides
This heav’nly land from ours.

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Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dressed in living green;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.

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Oh, could we make our doubts remove,
These gloomy doubts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love
With unbeclouded eyes.

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