On Sundays, at the matin-chime,
The Alpine peasants, two and three,
Climb up here to pray;
Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,
Ride out to church from Chamberry,
Dight with mantles gay,
But else it is a lonely time
Round the Church of Brou.
Matthew Arnold
Quotes , Source: The Church of Brou (II, st. 3)
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And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man
for the sabbath:
Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Mark (ch. II, v. 27-28)
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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven
What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
Robert Browning
Quotes , Source: Pippa Passes (sc. 1)
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Of all the days that's in the week,
I dearly love but one day,
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.
Henry Carey
Quotes , Source: Sally in Our Alley
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How still the morning of the hallow'd day!
Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd
The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.
James Grahame (2)
Quotes , Source: The Sabbath--Song
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Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps,
Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,
Mortals are all asleep below,
None in the village hears him go;
E'en chanticleer keeps very still,
For Sunday whispered, 'twas his will.
John Peter Hebel
Quotes , Source: Sunday Morning
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Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime,
'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.
George Herbert
Quotes , Source: Temple--The Church Porch (st. 65)
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The Sundaies of man's life,
Thredded together on time's string,
Make bracelets to adorn the wife
Of the eternal, glorious King.
On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope;
Blessings are plentiful and rife.
More plentiful than hope.
George Herbert
Quotes , Source: Temple--The Church--Sunday
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Now, really, this appears the common case
Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday--
But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy?
Thomas Hood
Quotes , Source: An Open Question (st. 1)
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So sang they, and the empyrean rung
With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 632)
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For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way,
He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say "mew;"
Nae birdie maun whistle, nae lambie maun play,
An' Phoebus himsel' could na travel that day,
As he'd find a new Joshua in Andie Agnew.
Thomas Moore
Quotes , Source: Sunday Ethics (st. 3)
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep,
And all the western world believe and sleep.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 99)
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot--Prologue to the Satires (l. 12)
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