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  1. 1Lord of the Sabbath, hear us pray,
  2. In this Thy house, on this Thy day;
  3. And own as grateful sacrifice,
  4. The songs which from Thy temple rise.
  5. 2Now met to pray and bless Thy Name,
  6. Whose mercies flow each day the same,
  7. Whose kind compassions never cease,
  8. We seek instruction, pardon, peace.
  9. 3Thy day of rest, O Lord, we love,
  10. But look for truer rest above;
  11. To that our laboring souls aspire
  12. With ardent hope and strong desire.
  13. 4In Thy blest Kingdom we shall be
  14. From every mortal trouble free;
  15. No sighs shall mingle with the songs
  16. Resounding from immortal tongues.
  17. 5No rude alarms of raging foes;
  18. No cares to break the long repose;
  19. No midnight shade, no waning moon,
  20. But sacred, high, eternal noon.
  21. 6O long-expected day begin,
  22. Dawn on these realms of woe and sin!
  23. Break, morn of God, upon our eyes;
  24. And let the world's true Sun arise.

About this music

OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Anticipating the Heavenly Sabbath page.

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