...(1. 19-20) CH; HAP; Mes; MoShBr; NOEC; OxBChV; OxBoLi; Par; PoEL-3 There Is a land of pure delight 8 e green valleys. At ninety-six * 9 Degenerate sons . (1. 1—4) ELP; NOCV; NoP; OBD; TOP; WGRP When I Survey the Wondrous Cross 9 When I survey the wondrous...

...underscore the obvious debt. The opening lines belong to Watt's "A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy." There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Ah, there the skies are always blue, And hearts forget to grieve, For there's never a dream but must...

...people to believe that their wretched existence on earth would be followed by a blissful one in heaven: There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting Spring abides. And never-with'ring flowe'rs: Death, like a narrow sea divides This...

...Nicholas Marr (1792-1865) and his first wife, Anna Goodloe Hinton Marr; thev lived in Missouri. 32. "There is a land of pure delight, / Where saints immortal reign; / Infinite day 434 excludes the night, / And pleasures banish pain" (Isaac Watts's hymn, "There is a Land of Pure...

...benumbed with cold. O </ but as if to show contempt for the weather the Third sang with great unction : "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...

...flee away, And we shall never, never mourn. 1022 CMIWA-TO Desiring the Heavenly Canaan. Heb. 11. 16 1 There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This...

...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...