On Jordan’s Stormy Banks

On Jor­dan’s stor­my banks I stand

And cast a wish­ful eye

To Ca­naan’s fair and hap­py land

Where my pos­ses­sions lie.

We will rest in the fair and hap­py land

Just across on the ev­er­green shore

Sing the song of Moses and the Lamb

And dwell with Je­sus ev­er­more.

Over all those wide ex­tend­ed plains

Shines one eter­nal day;

There God the Son for­ev­er reigns

And scat­ters night away.

When shall I reach that hap­py place

And be for­ev­er blest?

When shall I see my Fa­ther’s face

And in His bo­som rest?

Filled with de­light

my rap­tured soul

Would here no long­er stay;

Tho’ Jor­dan’s waves around me roll

Fearless I’d launch away.