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Contains JSON data on the Trinity Hymnal
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{
"title": "There is a land of pure delight",
"author": "",
"tune": "Meditation",
"number": "597",
"lyrics": "There is a land of pure delight,\nWhere saints immortal reign;\nInfinite day excludes the night,\nAnd pleasures banish pain.\n\nThere everlasting spring abides,\nAnd never with'ring flowers;\nDeath, like a narrow sea, divides\nThis heav'nly land from ours.\n\nSweet fields beyond the swelling flood\nStand dressed in living green;\nSo to the Jews old Canaan stood,\nWhile Jordan rolled between.\n\nBut tim'rous mortals start and shrink\nTo cross this narrow sea;\nAnd linger, shivering, on the brink,\nAnd fear to launch away.\n\nO could we make our doubts remove,\nThose gloomy doubts that rise,\nAnd see the Canaan that we love\nWith unbeclouded eyes;\n\nCould we but climb where Moses stood,\nAnd view the landscape o'er,\nNot Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood,\nShould fright us from the shore.",
"first_line": "There is a land of pure delight,"
}