Thanksgiving
O Day of Rest And Gladness
- Words:
- Christopher Wordsworth, 1862.
- Music:
- 'Woodbird' or 'Es Flog Ein Kleins Waldvögelein' traditional German found in
- Metre:
- 7 6 7 6 7 6 7 6
- 1O day of rest and gladness,o day of joy and light,O balm of care and sadness,most beautiful, most bright:On thee, the high and lowly,through ages joined in tune,Sing holy, holy, holy,to the great God Triune.
- 2On thee, at the creation,the light first had its birth;On thee, for our salvation,Christ rose from depths of earth;On thee, our Lord, victorious,the Spirit sent from heaven,And thus on thee, most glorious,a triple light was given.
- 3Thou art a port, protectedfrom storms that round us rise;A garden, intersectedwith streams of paradise;Thou art a cooling fountainin life's dry, dreary sand;From thee, like Pisgah's mountain,we view our promised land.
- 4Thou art a holy ladder,where angels go and come;Each Sunday finds us gladder,nearer to heaven, our home;A day of sweet refection,thou art a day of love,A day of resurrectionfrom earth to things above.
- 5Today on weary nationsthe heavenly manna falls;To holy convocationsthe silver trumpet calls,Where Gospel light is glowingwith pure and radiant beams,And living water flowing,with soul refreshing streams.
- 6New graces ever gaining from this our day of rest,We reach the rest remaining to spirits of the blessed.To Holy Ghost be praises, to Father, and to Son;The church her voice upraises to Thee, blessed Three in One.
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- Written in 1862, the words are in 864 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.