Ile Ayo Kikun Kan N Be

Words of verses by Isaac Watts (1709)
Words of refrain by Anonymous

Ile ayo kikun kan n be Bit' awon mimo n gbe Ko soru af' osan titi Irora ko si be Refrain: Ounje iye ni awa n je Kanga iye ni awa n mu Enit' o ba mu kanga yii Oungbe ki y'o gbe mo lailai Bayi ni Jesu wi, "Oungbe ki y'o gbe mo." Bayi ni Jesu wi, "Oungbe ki y'o gbe mo." Enit' o ba mu kanga yii Oungbe ki y'o gbe mo lailai Orisun iye n be nibe Itanna ti ki re Iku n'iboju ti ko je K'a r'ile ewa yi 'Yemeji wa 'ba le fo lo K'a le aigbagbo lo K'a fi 'gbagbo wo Kenan wa Ile wara, oyin A ba le goke bi Mose K'a wo 'le naa lookan Ikun bi odo nla Jordan K'y'o ba wa leru mo Source: Iwe Orin Irapada Ti Ijo Aposteli Na #782

There is a land of pure delight, where saints immortal reign, infinite day excludes the night, and pleasures banish pain. Refrain: We’re feeding on the living bread, We’re drinking at the fountainhead; And whoso drinketh, Jesus said, Shall never, never thirst again. What, never thirst again? No, never thirst again! What, never thirst again? No, never thirst again! And whoso drinketh, Jesus said, Shall never, never thirst again! There everlasting spring abides, and never-withering flowers: death, like a narrow sea, divides this heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood stand dressed in living green: so to the Jews old Canaan stood, while Jordan rolled between. But timorous mortals start and shrink to cross this narrow sea; and linger, shivering on the brink, and fear to launch away. O could we make our doubts remove, those gloomy thoughts that rise, and see the Canaan that we love with unbeclouded eyes! Could we but climb where Moses stood, and view the landscape o'er, not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, should fright us from the shore.  shore.