Never Late

Representative Text

1 I'll awake at dawn on the Sabbath day,
For 'tis wrong to doze holy time away:
With my lessons learned, this shall be my rule--
Never to be late at the Sabbath school.

2 Birds awake betimes; every morn they sing;
None are tardy there, when the woods do ring;
So when Sunday comes, this shall be my rule--
Never to be late at the Sabbath school.

3 When the summer's sun wakes the flowers again,
They the call obey--none are tardy then;
Nor will I forget that it is my rule
Never to be late at the Sabbath school.

4 But these Sabbath days will soon be o'er,
And these happy hours shall return no more;
Then I'll ne'er regret that it was my rule
Never to be late at the Sabbath school.

Source: The New Sabbath School Hosanna: enlarged and improved: a choice collection of popular hymns and tunes, original and selected: for the Sunday school and the family circle... #9

Author: W. B. Bradford

Born in 1590, William Bradford was one of the founders of Plymouth colony in 1620 and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. He served as the colony's governor for more than thirty years, and wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation," one of the first histories of European settlement in the New World, before his death in 1657. Born of substantial yeomen in Yorkshire, England, Bradford expressed his nonconformist religious sensibilities in his early teens and joined the famed Separatist church in Scrooby at the age of seventeen. In 1609 he immigrated with the congregation, led by John Robinson, to the Netherlands. For the next eleven years he and his fellow religious dissenters lived in Leyden until their fear of assimilation into Dutch culture prompted… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: I'll awake at dawn on the Sabbath day
Title: Never Late
Author: W. B. Bradford
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 48 of 48)
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A Collection of Sabbath School Hymns #42

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Anniversary and Sabbath School Hymns #37

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Bradbury's Sabbath School Melodies, and Family Choir #4

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Early Blossoms #109a

Glad Tidings #d40

Hymns of The Voice of Praise #d116

Maynard's Selected Sabbath School Hymns. 4th ed. #d87

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Sabbath School Bell No. 2 #40

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Songs for the Sabbath School and Vestry #60

Sunday School Hymn Book #d188

The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5 #d80

The Canadian Warbler #d78

The Carol #d51

The Confederate Sunday School Hymn Book #d59

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The Infant-School Hymn-Book #84

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The New England Sabbath School Minstrel #140

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The New Sabbath School Hosanna #9

The Sabbath School Gem #d39

The Union Harp and Revival Chorister. Rev ed. #d184

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Young Singer's Friend #15

American Sunday School Hymn Book. 2nd ed. #a8

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American Sunday School Hymn Book. New ed. #aa8

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Hymns additional to the Hymns in the Prayer Book #244

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Sunday-School Hymns #310

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The American Sunday-School Hymn-Book #8

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Bradbury's Golden Chain of Sabbath School Melodies #9a

Children's Praise #d66

Musical Leaves for Sabbath Schools #d62

Oriola #d111

Oriola #d112

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Songs for Children #24

Spring Blossoms #d42

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The Christian Harp and Sabbath School Songster #107

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The New Golden Chain of Sabbath School Melodies #9a

The Sabbath School Hosanna #d75

The Southern Psalmist. New ed. #d390

The Voice of Praise #d116

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A Service Book #103

Anniversary and Sabbath School Hymns; or The Child's Sunday School Music Book #d44

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Plymouth Sabbath School Collection #12

Sabbath School Choir #d40

Sabbath School Trumpet #d38

The Sabbath School Melodist #d29

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The Singing Book for Boys' and Girls' Meetings #28

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