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Hymn: Welcome sweet day of rest (FL)

Hymnal: The Pilgrim's Hymn Book

Date: 1816

Compiler: Joseph Thomas

Publisher/Printer: J Foster

First Line: Welcome sweet day of rest

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: SM

Tune:

Hymn Number: XL

Page Number: 053, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Welcome sweet day of rest,

That saw the Lord arise;

Welcome to this reviving breast,

And these rejoicing eyes.



The king himself comes near,

And feasts his saints to day;

Here we may sit and see him here,

And love and praise and pray.



One day amidst the place,

Where my dear God hath been,

Is sweeter than ten thousand days

Of Pleasurable sin.



My willing soul would stay,

In such a frame as this;

And sit and sing herself away

To everlasting bliss.