SABBATH. 78. 6 lines.

DR. L. MASON.

2 No more fatigue, no more distress, Nor sin, nor death, shall reach the place; No shall mingle with the songs groans That warble from immortal tongues.

3 No rude alarms of raging foes;

No cares to break the long repose;
No midnight shade; no clouded sun;
But sacred, high, eternal noon.

4 Soon shall that glorious day begin,
Beyond this world of death and sin;-
Soon shall our voices join the song
Of the triumphant, holy throng.

3.

1 ANOTHER day has passed along,
And we are nearer to the tomb,
Nearer to join the heavenly song,
Or hear the last eternal doom.

2 Sweet is the light of Sabbath eve,
And soft the sunbeams lingering there;
For these blest hours, the world I leave,
Wafted on wings of faith and prayer.
3 The time how lovely and how still;

Peace shines and smiles on all belowThe plain, the stream, the wood, the hillAll fair with evening's setting glow.

4 Season of rest! the tranquil soul

Feels the sweet calm, and melts to loveAnd while these sacred moments roll, Faith sees the smiling heaven above.

5 Nor will our days of toil be long,
Our pilgrimage will soon be trod;
And we shall join the ceaseless song-
The endless Sabbath of our God.

4.

1 My opening eyes with rapture see
The dawn of thy returning day;
My thoughts, O God, ascend to thee,
While thus my early vows I pay.

2 Oh, bid this trifling world retire,
And drive each carnal thought away;
Nor let me feel one vain desire-
One sinful thought through all the day.
3 Then, to thy courts when I repair,
My soul shall rise on joyful wing,
The wonders of thy love declare,
And join the strains which angels sing.
5.

I COME, gracious Lord, descend and dwell,
By faith and love, in every breast;
Then shall we know, and taste, and feel
The joys that cannot be expressed.

2 Come, fill our hearts with inward strength, Make our enlarged souls possess,

And learn the height, and breadth, and length

Of thine eternal love and grace. 3 Now to the God whose power can do More than our thoughts and wishes know, Be everlasting honors done,

By all the church, through Christ, his Son.