O Day of Rest And Gladness

Words and music by Christopher Wordsworth · 1862

Key of G · 125 BPM · 4/4 · Anticipation,Calmness,Church on Earth · Ex 20:10

Verse 1

O day of rest and gladness, o day of joy and light,
O balm of care and sadness, most beautiful, most bright:
On thee, the high and lowly, through ages joined in tune,
Sing holy, holy, holy, to the great God Triune.

Verse 2

On thee, at the creation, the light first had its birth;
On thee, for our salvation, Christ rose from depths of earth;
On thee, our Lord, victorious, the Spirit sent from heaven,
And thus on thee, most glorious, a triple light was given.

Verse 3

Thou art a port, protected from storms that round us rise;
A garden, intersected with streams of paradise;
Thou art a cooling fountain in life's dry, dreary sand;
From thee, like Pisgah's mountain, we view our promised land.

Verse 4

Thou art a holy ladder, where angels go and come;
Each Sunday finds us gladder, nearer to heaven, our home;
A day of sweet refection, thou art a day of love,
A day of resurrection from earth to things above.

Verse 5

Today on weary nations the heavenly manna falls;
To holy convocations the silver trumpet calls,
Where Gospel light is glowing with pure and radiant beams,
And living water flowing, with soul refreshing streams.

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