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<h2>O DAY OF REST AND GLADNESS</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.&#8221; Exodus 20:10</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_w_o_wordsworth_c.jpg" alt="Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885)" width="126" height="190"></td>
<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_o_wordsworth_c.html" target="_blank">Christopher Wordsworth</a>, 1862.
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Mendebras,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_a_mason_l.html" target="_blank">Lowell Mason</a>, 1839 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_m_mendebra.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>&#8220;Ellacombe,&#8221; <em>Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Wirtembergischen Katholischen Hofkapelle</em> (Wurtemberg, Germany: 1784); adapted and harmonized by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_o_monk_wh.html" target="_blank">William Henry Monk</a>, 1868 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_e_ellacomb.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
<li>&#8220;Rotterdam,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_t_o_tours_b.html" target="_blank">Berthold Tours</a> </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_r_o_rotterdm.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
<li>&#8220;Woodbird,&#8221; traditional German melody </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_w_o_woodbird.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
<li>&#8220;Wordsworth,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_o_monk_wh.html" target="_blank">William Henry Monk</a> </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_w_o_wordswrt.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<td align="center" width="181"><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_m_a_mason_l.jpg" alt="Lowell Mason (1792-1872)" width="120.666666666667" height="163.333333333333"><br>
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<p>O day of rest and gladness, of day of joy and light,<br>
O balm of care and sadness, most beautiful, most bright:<br>
On Thee, the high and lowly, through ages joined in tune,<br>
Sing holy, holy, holy, to the great God Triune.</p>
<p>On Thee, at the creation, the light first had its birth;<br>
On Thee, for our salvation, Christ rose from depths of earth;<br>
On Thee, our Lord, victorious, the Spirit sent from heaven,<br>
And thus on Thee, most glorious, a triple light was given.</p>
<p>Thou art a port protected from storms that round us rise;<br>
A garden intersected with streams of paradise;<br>
Thou art a cooling fountain in life&#8217;s dry dreary sand;<br>
From Thee, like Pisgah&#8217;s mountain, we view our promised land.</p>
<p>Thou art a holy ladder, where angels go and come;<br>
Each Sunday finds us gladder, nearer to heaven, our home;<br>
A day of sweet refection, thou art a day of love,<br>
A day of resurrection from earth to things above.</p>
<p>Today on weary nations the heavenly manna falls;<br>
To holy convocations the silver trumpet calls,<br>
Where Gospel light is glowing with pure and radiant beams,<br>
And living water flowing, with soul refreshing streams.</p>
<p>New graces ever gaining from this our day of rest,<br>
We reach the rest remaining to spirits of the blessed.<br>
To Holy Ghost be praises, to Father, and to Son;<br>
The church her voice upraises to Thee, blessed Three in One.</p>
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