 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1842 - 628 pages
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er ; Not Jordan's stream, nor death's... | |
 | Poetry - 1842 - 96 pages
...abides, And never-withering flow'rs : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But tim'rous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shiv'ring on the brink,... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1842 - 298 pages
...sea, divides This heavenly land from 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 mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering... | |
 | 1843 - 758 pages
...the night, And plea - - sures ban - ish pain. 2. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea divides This heavenly...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4. But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering on the brink,... | |
 | Okehampton - 1843 - 116 pages
...sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stands dressed in living* green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea; And linger trembling on the brink,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, American - 1921 - 228 pages
...of the verses of Watts that you so much admire Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand drefsd in living green So to the Jews old Canaan stood While Jordan rolld between &c &c We continued riding among these hills for some time, with the most romantic views continually... | |
 | 1922 - 492 pages
...di-videsThatheaven-ly land from ours. .J^L i Sp ^ r 2 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between: But timorous mortals stand and shrink To cross this narrow sea And linger, shivering... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry - 1923 - 890 pages
...narrow sea divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shivering... | |
 | Frederic Palmer - Christian biography - 1925 - 272 pages
...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.2 The incomparable joys of heaven, eagerness to reach it, and the consequent insignificance... | |
 | Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church - Church music - 1925 - 976 pages
...- bides, And nev - er with-'ring flow'rs: 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 mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering... | |
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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. 
