A Selection of Hymns, Used in the Parish Church, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, Ulverston/Hymn 22

HYMN 22.

Dear is to me the Sabbath morn;
⁠The village bells, the pastor's voice,
These oft have found my heart forlorn,
⁠And these have bid my heart rejoice.

And dear to me the winged hour
⁠Spent in Thy hallow'd courts, O Lord!
To feel devotion's soothing pow'r,
⁠And catch the manna of Thy word.

And dear to me the loud Amen,
⁠Which echoes through the bless'd abode,
Which swells and sinks, and swells again,
⁠Dies on the walls but lives to God.

Oh! when the world, with sordid hand,
⁠Would bind me in its servile chain,
Thus burst, O Lord! its strongest band,
⁠And set my spirit free again.