 | Moses Waddel - 1818 - 190 pages
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly...young, timid, delicate female, not yet seventeen years old—the only child of my beloved parents—surrounded with all the comforts of life—nurtured with... | |
 | John Wesley - 1818 - 306 pages
...divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand drest in livid 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 shiv'ring on the brink,... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Children - 1823 - 258 pages
...the happy land of Beulah, contented to tarry till the expected messenger should summon them away. " Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...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 son!"... | |
 | Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha) - 1828 - 284 pages
...forbear crying out in a transport — « Sweet fields, beyond the swelling 8ood, Stund dressed with 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 son... | |
 | David Francis Bacon - Christian biography - 1833 - 630 pages
...land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And...surrounded with all the comforts of life — nurtured with pecular tenderness, in the bosom of parental affection from my earliest infancy, and always sheltered... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1834 - 436 pages
...forbear crying out in a transport — " Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in lively 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 son... | |
 | rev. James Gardner - Christian women - 1841 - 428 pages
...abides, And never-with'ring flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd...you,' said she, ' a young, timid, delicate female, not seventeen years old—the only child of my beloved parents—surrounded with all the comforts of life—nurtured... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - Hymns - 1853 - 402 pages
...sea, divides This Heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dves&'d \\\ living green ; So to the 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,... | |
 | Christian worship - 1867 - 226 pages
...divides This heavenly land of ours. Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in livrng 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, shivering on the brink,... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1869 - 284 pages
...sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'din living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, No Jordan stream of Death's cold... | |
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And never with'ring flowers ; Death, like a narrow 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 Jordan roll'd between. 