Hail to the Sabbath Day

 

VERSE 1

Hail to the Sabbath day!

The day divinely given,

When men to God their homage pay,

And earth draws near to Heaven.

 

VERSE 2

Lord, in this sacred hour,

Within Thy courts we bend,

And bless Thy love, and own Thy power,

Our Father and our Friend.

 

VERSE 3

But Thou art not alone

In courts by mortals trod;

Nor only is the day Thine own

When man draws near to God.

 

VERSE 4

Thy temple is the arch

Of yon unmeasured sky;

Thy Sabbath, the stupendous march

Of vast eternity.

 

VERSE 5

Lord, may that holier day

Dawn on Thy servants’ sight;

And purer worship may we pay

In Heaven’s unclouded light.

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