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S. M.
Welcome, sweet day of rest.
Welcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes.
2 The King himself comes near,
And feasts his saints to-day:
Here may we sit and see him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.
3 One day, amid the place
Where Christ my Lord, hath been,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Within the tents of sin.
4 My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this,
And sit and sing herself away
To everlasting bliss.
Watts.