O day of rest and gladness

O day of rest and gladness. Christopher Wordsworth* (1807-1885). This is a hymn for Sunday, placed first in the 1862 edition of Wordsworth’s The Holy Year and third in the revised edition of 1863. In the musical edition of the book in 1865 it was set to the tune WORDSWORTH, written for it by William Henry Monk*. It was originally in six 13.13.13.13 stanzas, changed in the 1865 Edition to 7.6.7.6. D. Stanza 1 was: O Day of rest and gladness,  O Day of joy and light,O balm of care and sadness,  Most beautiful, most bright;On thee, the high and lowly,  Through ages join’d in tune,Sing Holy, Holy, Holy,  To the Great God Triune. The editors of the Appendix (1868) to A&M changed the last...