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I: How welcome to the saints, when press'd / With six days' noise and care and toil, / Is the returning day of rest, / Which hides them from the world awhile!
II: Now from the throng withdrawn away, / They seem to breathe a diff'rent air; / Composed and soften'd by the day, / All things another aspect wear.
III: How happy if their lot is cast / Where statedly the gospel sounds!
The word is honey to their taste, / Renews their strength, and heals their wounds!
IV: Though pinch'd with poverty at home, / With sharp afflictions daily fed, / It makes amends, if they can come / To God's own house for heav'nly bread!
V: With joy they hasten to the place / Where they their Saviour oft have met; / And while they feast upon his grace, / Their burdens and their griefs forget.
VI: This favour'd lot, my friends, is ours; / May we the privilege improve, / And find these consecrated hours / Sweet earnest of the joys above.
VII: We thank thee for thy day, O Lord!
Here we thy promised presence seek; / Open thine hand, with blessings stored, / And give us manna for the week.