Name: Sweet Is the Work
Duration: P00H06M02S
Description: This was my second major attempt to set a hymn to new music. This time I was in my late thirties, when I wrote this, and was at a painful transition in my life.

Sweet Is the Work

from Different Worlds by Paul Taylor

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This was my second major attempt to set a hymn to new music. This time I was in my late thirties, when I wrote this, and was at a painful transition in my life.

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Sweet is the work, my God, my king,
To praise Thy name, give thanks and sing,
To show Thy love by morning light
And talk of all Thy truth at night.

Sweet is the day of sacred rest,
No mortal care disturbs my breast.
O may my heart in tune be found,
Like David’s harp of solemn sound!

My heart shall triumph in my Lord
And bless His works and bless His Word.
Thy works of grace, how bright they shine!
How deep Thy counsels, how divine!

But I shall share a glorious part,
When grace has well refined my heart;
And fresh supplies of joy are shed,
Like holy oil, to cheer my head.

Then shall I see, and hear, and know
All I desired and wished below;
And every power find sweet employ
In that eternal world of joy.

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from Different Worlds, released October 7, 2013
words: Isaac Watts
music: Paul Taylor

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