Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: O day of rest and gladness
Topic: Public Worship/The Lord's Day
Writer: <no first name given> Wordsworth
Composer:
Meter: 7s and 6s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 633
Page Number: 380, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO 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,
Bending before the throne,
Sing holy, holy, holy,
To God the holy One.
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 Spirits sent from heaven,
And this on thee most glorious
A triple light was given.
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.