Hallelujah! Fairest Morning

Hallelujah! Fair­est morn­ing

Fairer than my words can say!

Down I lay the hea­vy bur­den

Of life’s toil and care to­day;

While this morn of joy and love

Brings fresh vi­gor from above.

Sunday

full of ho­ly glo­ry!

Sweetest rest-day of the soul

Light upon a world of dark­ness

From thy bless­èd mo­ments roll!

Holy

hap­py

heav’n­ly day

Thou canst charm my grief away.

Now I taste my Fa­ther’s good­ness

Falling like the morn­ing dew

While of pas­tures ev­en fair­er

I would take a dist­ant view.

Where my shep­herd’s flock I see

Where my dwell­ing soon shall be!

Oh

be si­lent

earth­ly tur­moil

I have work more sweet and blest

And each thought would ga­ther home­ward

On this hap­py day of rest.

Thus with clear­er faith to see

All my Lord has done for me.

In the glad­ness of His wor­ship

I will seek my joy to­day;

It is then I learn the full­ness

Of the grace for which I pray

When the word of life is giv’n

Like the Sav­ior’s voice from Heav’n.

Let the day’s sweet hours be end­ed

Prayerfully

as they be­gan;

And Thy bless­ing

Lord

be grant­ed

Till earth’s days and weeks are done;

That at last Thy serv­ant may

Keep eter­nal Sab­bath day.