Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Thine earthly Sabbaths Lord we love
Topic: Public Worship/The Lord's Day
Writer: <no first name given> Doddridge
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 617
Page Number: 371, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThine earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love,
But there's a nobler rest above;
To that our laboring souls aspire,
With ardent pangs of strong desire.
No more fatigue, no more distress,
Nor sin nor death shall reach the place;
No groans to mingle with the songs
Which warble from immortal tongues.
No rude alarms of raging foes;
No cares to break the long repose;
No midnight shade, no clouded sun,
But sacred, high, eternal noon.
O long-expected day, begin,
Dawn on these realms of wo and sin;
Fain would we leave this weary road,
And sleep in death, to rest with God.