 | John Burder - 1851 - 358 pages
...swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood. While Jordan roll'd between. But timorous mortals start and shrink To...shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away.] Could we but climb where Moses stood. And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's streams, nor death's... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever, Joseph E. Sweetser - 1851 - 256 pages
...flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews fair Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4. But timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this...shivering, on the brink, And fear to launch away. 5. O, could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise ; And see the Canaan that we love... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1851 - 488 pages
...abides, And never- withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shivering on the brink,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 288 pages
...and shrink To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, trembling, on the brink, And fear to launch away. 5 0, could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts...see the Canaan that we love, With unbeclouded eyes ; , 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 pages
...swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But timorous mortals start and shrink To...linger shivering on the brink, And fear to launch awav. Oh ! could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise ; And see the Canaan that... | |
 | Free Will Baptists (1780?-1911), Baptists Free Baptists, Free Baptists - 1851 - 256 pages
...abides, And never-withering flowers j Death like a narrow sea divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering on the brink,... | |
 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 pages
...yean, And formed by power divine, To sound in God the Father's ears JVo other Name but Thine. . Heaven. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed...linger shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. O could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love,... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - 1852 - 180 pages
...abides, And never-withering flowers: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed...mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, O, could we but our doubts remove, These gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love,... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - 1852 - 186 pages
...abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed...Jordan rolled between. But timorous mortals start aud shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. O,... | |
 | Henry Townley - 1852 - 110 pages
...delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. " Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between." The other instance was in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, when seized with the cholera. My life hung... | |
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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. 
