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Oh holy Sabbath bells, / Ye have a pleasant voice!
Through all the land your music swells, / And man with one commandment tells / To rest and to rejoice.
As birds rejoice to flee / From dark and stormy skies / To brighter lands beyond the sea / Where skies are calm, and wings are free / To wander and to rise;
As thirsty travellers sing, / Through desert paths that pass, / To hear the welcome waters spring, / And see, beyond the spray they fling / Tall trees and waving grass;
So we rejoice to know / Your melody begun; / For when our paths are parched below / Ye tell us where green pastures glow / And living waters run.