The dawn of God's new Sabbath
Breaks o'er the earth again,
As some sweet summer morning
After a night of pain.
It comes as cooling showers
To cheer a thirsting land,
As shades of clustered palm-trees
'Mid weary wastes of sand.

2 Lord, we would bring our burden
Of sinful thought and deed,
In Thy pure presence kneeling

From bondage to be freed;
Our heart's most bitter sorrow
For all our work undone,
So many talents wasted,

So few true conquests won.

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3 Yet still, O Lord long-suffering,
Still grant us in our need
Here in Thy holy presence

The saving name to plead;
And on Thy day of blessings,
Within Thy temple walls,
To foretaste the pure worship
Of Zion's golden halls:

4 Until in joy and gladness

We reach that home at last,
When life's short week of sorrow
And sin and strife is past;
When angel-hands have gathered
The first ripe fruit for Thee,
O Father, Son, and Spirit,
Most Holy Trinity!

Ada Cambridge Cross 1866

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WELCOME, delightful morn,
Thou day of sacred rest:

I hail thy kind return;

Lord, make these moments blest;
From the low train of mortal toys,
I soar to reach immortal joys.
2 Now may the King descend,
And fill His throne of grace:
Thy sceptre, Lord, extend,

While saints address Thy face;
Let sinners feel Thy quickening word,
And learn to know and fear the Lord.

3 Descend, celestial Dove,

With all Thy quickening powers, Disclose a Saviour's love,

And bless these sacred hours ; Then shall my soul new life obtain, Nor Sabbaths e'er be spent in vain. Hayward, In John Dobell's Collection, 1806

AWAKE, ye saints, awake!
And hail this sacred day:
In loftiest songs of praise

Your joyful homage pay:

Come, bless the day that God hath blest, The type of heaven's eternal rest.

2 On this auspicious morn

The Lord of life arose ;
He burst the bars of death,

And vanquished all our foes;
And now He pleads our cause above,
And reaps the fruit of all His love.

3 All hail, triumphant Lord!

Heaven with hosannas rings, And earth, in humbler strains, Thy praise responsive sings: Worthy the Lamb, that once was slain, Through endless years to live and reign.

Elizabeth Scott 1756 Thomas Cotterill 1810