| E. J. Jones - Hymns, English - 1812 - 136 pages
...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green: So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. To cross this narrow sea; And linger, shiv'ring on the brink, But tim'rous mortals... | |
| Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - Bible - 1814 - 564 pages
...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 tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shiv'ring... | |
| Elizabeth Frank - English language - 1814 - 400 pages
...unknown. But, however gloomy the passage appears, "Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between." Nature cannot but shiver on the fatal brink, unwilling to try the grand experiment;... | |
| Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - Bible - 1814 - 696 pages
...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 tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shiv'ring... | |
| English letters - 1816 - 358 pages
...unknown. But, however gloomy the passage appears, 'jSweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between." Nature cannot but shiver on the fatal brink, unwilling to try the grand experiment;... | |
| Richard Herne Shepherd - Hymns, English - 1818 - 684 pages
...sea, divides This hea,v'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 timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shiv'ring... | |
| Selection, William Williams (of Soho sq, London) - Hymns, English - 1819 - 480 pages
...narrow stream, divides The heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood While Jordan roll'd between. O could I make my fears remove, Those gloomy fears that rise, Angels will hover rou... | |
| Charles Burton - Hymns, English - 1820 - 490 pages
...banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, 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 shiv'ring... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood - Angels - 1821 - 292 pages
...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,... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1821 - 582 pages
...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. > Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood. Stand drest in living green ; So* to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. •1 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er; Not Jordan's... | |
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