PART 1
This is the day of light:
Let there be light today;
O Dayspring, rise upon our night
And chase its gloom away.
This is the day of rest:
Our failing strength renew;
On weary brain and troubled breast
Shed thou thy freshening dew.
This is the day of peace:
Thy peace our spirits fill;
Bid thou the blasts of discord cease,
The waves of strife be still.
This is the day of prayer:
Let earth to heaven draw near;
Lift up our hearts to seek thee there,
Come down to meet us here.
This is the first of days;
Send forth thy quickening breath,
And wake dead souls to love and praise,
O Vanquisher of death! Amin.
PART 2
elcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the LORD arise;
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes.
The King Himself comes near,
And feast his saints today,
Here may we stay, and see Him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.
One day of prayer and praise
His sacred courts within,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
In pleasure's path of sin.
My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this;
And wait to hail the brighter day
Of everlasting bliss. Amin.