Music & HymnsWelcome, Delightful Morn

"Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God." Exodus 20:10

Words: "Hayward," John Dobell's A New Selection, 1806.

Music: "Das Lieben Bringt Gro¯ Freud" (Loving Brings Great Joy), Friedrich Silcher, 1827, from a Swabian folk tune; arranged by Lowell Mason in his Carmina Sacra, second edition, 1841

the tune "Lischer" (a misspelled "Silcher"?), or erroneously give Silcher's name as "Schneider."

Welcome, delightful morn,
Thou day of sacred rest!
I hail thy kind return;
Lord, make these moments blest;
From the low train of mortal toys,
I soar to reach immortal joys,
I soar to reach immortal joys.

Now may the King descend,
And fill His throne with grace;
Thy scepter, Lord, extend,
While saints address Thy face:
Let sinners feel Thy quickening Word,
And learn to know and fear the Lord,
And learn to know and fear the Lord.

Descend, celestial Dove,
With all Thy quickening powers;
Disclose a Savior's love,
And bless the sacred hours:
Then shall my soul new life obtain,
Nor Sabbaths be enjoyed in vain,
Nor Sabbaths be enjoyed in vain.

Hymns supplied through the gracious generosity of the Cyber Hymnal Website