Rivers of pure delight shall rise

Verse 1
Rivers of pure delight shall rise,
And o’er the barren mountains flow,
Fountains and streams of paradise
Refresh the weary vale below:
Water’d by me the desart-soul
The garden of the Lord shall prove,
Replenish’d as a wide-spread pool,
Or spring of everlasting love.

Verse 2
There in the smiling wilderness
My fertilizing Spirit shall dwell,
And plant the fair Elysian trees
Whose leaves the sickly nations heal:
The trees of righteousness shall grow,
And flourish to their planter’s praise,
And all the heavenly virtues shew,
And all the fruits of ripest grace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry-land springs of water, &c.”—[Isa.] xli. 18, 19. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 412.
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