Sabbath Morn (Oliver Holden)

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• (Posted 2015-08-29)  CPDL #36652: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-08-29).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 57 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). The other five stanzas of Stennett's hymn added below.

General Information

Title: Sabbath Morn
First Line: Another six days' work is done
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: Samuel Stennett

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1803

Description: First published in The Charlestown Collection, 1803, p. 47, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass. Words by Samuel Stennett, 1743, in six stanzas.

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Original text and translations

English text 1. Another six days’ work is done, Another Sabbath is begun; Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest, Improve the day thy God has blessed. 2. Come, bless the Lord, whose love assigns So sweet a rest to wearied minds; Provides an antepast of heaven, And gives this day the food of seven.

3. O that our thoughts and thanks may rise As grateful incense to the skies; And draw from heaven that sweet repose, Which none but he that feels it knows. 4. This heavenly calm within the breast Is the dear pledge of glorious rest, Which for the church of God remains The end of cares, the end of pains.

5. With joy great God, thy works we view, In various scenes both old and new; With praise we think on mercies past With hope, we future pleasures taste. 6. In holy duties let the day In holy pleasures pass away; How sweet, a Sabbath thus to spend, In hope of one that ne'er shall end!