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Text:Welcome, sweet day of rest
Tune:STATE STREET
Composer:J. C. Woodman

4. Welcome, sweet day of rest

1 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 God, my God, 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.

Text Information
First Line: Welcome, sweet day of rest
Publication Date: 1865
Notes: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: STATE STREET
Composer: J. C. Woodman
Meter: S. M.
Key: A♭ Major



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