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THE SABBATH.
There is a day, if understood,That is a day of peace;
A day of blessing to the good,
Who then from labour cease.
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It is a day of hope and rest,
When christians meet and pray;
And more of heaven delights the breast,
Than on another day.
When christians meet and pray;
And more of heaven delights the breast,
Than on another day.
It is a day when mercy beams,
More brightly from above;
And everything in nature seems
More full of peace and love.
More brightly from above;
And everything in nature seems
More full of peace and love.
The sun more sweetly seems to shine,—
His beams serenely grand,
Look like a gracious smile divine
Upon a happy land.
His beams serenely grand,
Look like a gracious smile divine
Upon a happy land.
It is the christian's day of rest,
He loves its peaceful dawn;
It is a day that God hath blest,
And Jesus calls his own.
He loves its peaceful dawn;
It is a day that God hath blest,
And Jesus calls his own.
It is a day when we should read
The word of God, and pray;
It is a blessed day indeed,—
It is the sabbath day.
The word of God, and pray;
It is a blessed day indeed,—
It is the sabbath day.
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