46. S. M. Watts.
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Adams, John G. (John Greenleaf) and Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)
The Sabbath Welcomed.
1Welcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this reviving breast
And these rejoicing eyes.
2The King himself comes near,
And feasts his saints to-day;
Here we may sit, and see him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.
3One day, amid the place
Where my dear Lord hath been,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Of folly and of sin.
4My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this,
Till called to rise and soar away
To everlasting bliss.