Hymn
The Lord's Day
Welcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes.
The King Himself comes near
And feasts His saints to-day;
Here may we seek, and see Him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.
One day of prayer and praise
His sacred courts within,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Of pleasurable sin.
My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this,
And wait to hail the brighter day
Of everlasting bliss.
The Lord's Day — Text from The Church Hymnal, 1898. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/the-lords-day
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote The Lord's Day?
The words of The Lord's Day were written by Isaac Watts; the version here was published in 1898. The library holds 248 more hymns by Isaac Watts, including The Excellency of the Christian Religion and From All That Dwell Below the Skies.
Is The Lord's Day public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from The Church Hymnal, published in 1898. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.
What is the metre of The Lord's Day?
The Lord's Day is in Short Metre (6.6.8.6). Hymns in the same metre can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, How Can A Sinner Know, Purity of Heart and A Morning Hymn.