| Will e'er that sabbath-morning rise, When on the Sun of Righteousness, Earth's wakening millions lift their eyes His healing beams to hail and bless:-- | | When God's own day of rest shall be Hallow'd, by all that live and move On peopled land, or desert sea, While all its hallowing influence prove:-- | | 279 When men of every hue and speech Shall hasten to the House of Prayer, And Christ's disciples go and teach The Gospel to all nations there:-- | | When meekly every heart receives The engrafted word, whose vigorous shoots Yield in their season tender leaves, Expanding flowers, and ripen'd fruits:-- | | Leaves of profession ever green, And flowers of promise never sere, Till fruits of holiness are seen, In rich succession round the year. | | As in Jerusalem above, Life's trees, the plants of God's right hand, Along the river of His love, To nourish saints and angels, stand:-- | | So earth, that garden of the Lord, Though long laid waste for man's offence, May yet see Paradise restored, And a now age of innocence. | | When Adam's offspring, born to death, From sun to sun, from pole to pole, Shall feel again the Almighty's breath, And man become a living soul:-- | | A soul new-born, beyond the range Of time, temptation, death, or sin, God's image, stampt on it, to change, Nor quench the life of God within. | | 280 Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, Nor heart of man conceived the grace, Which God, in His eternal word, Hath surely promised, shall take place. | | O Sun of Righteousness! unveil Thy heaven of uncreated rays, Till all that breathe shall bless and hail The glory of the latter days. | | Meanwhile, rejoicing on their beds, Whatever morning meets their eye, May saints, from slumber lift their heads, To greet the day-spring from on high. | |