Hail, peaceful day! let thy glorious world rejoice

Verse 1

COME peaceful day! Divinely blest!
Sweetly thy glories would we
sing– memorial of that sacred rest
Of creation's mighty King
This hallowed time to man was given,
A foretaste of the bliss of heaven.

Verse 1

Hail, peaceful day!
let thy glorious world rejoice,
Hail, memorial of that sacred rest
Of what creation's mighty King
The hallowed time to men was given,
A foretaste of the bliss of heaven.

Verse 2

Ye saints awake, with joyful lay,
Behold its rising light, divine;
To God your grateful homage pay,
Its radiant beams around us shine.
Welcome the day he calls his own,
And fervent worship at his throne.

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Verse 3

Hark! ! through the shining courts above
What rapturous praises echo now!
Around that holy law of love
Seraphs in adoration bow;
Let earth responsive to the strain,
Exalt alone Jehovah's name.

Verse 2

Hark! through the earth-encircling courts above
What rapturous praises echo now!
Around that holy law of love
Seraphs in adoration bow;
Let earth respond to the strain,
Exalt alone Jehovah's name.

Verse 4

All hail! thou bright, immortal day!
When at his temple all adore,
His scepter's universal sway
Observed in glory evermore ;
When Zion shall in triumph reign,
And Eden bloom on earth again.

Verse 3

O come, thou bright, immortal day!
When at his temple all adore,
And own his universal sway

Then Zion shall in triumph reign,
And Eden bloom on earth again.