Another six days' work is done

First published posthumously in Joseph Stennett's Works (1732, volume iv) under the title "On the Sabbath," this notable hymn originally contained fourteen stanzas of four lines. Although the complete poem was rarely if ever sung in its entirety, numerous extracted arrangements or centos entered widespread congregational usage throughout the English-speaking world. The earliest prominent arrangement appeared in Ash and Evans's Bristol Baptist Collection (1769) in six stanzas, introducing an anonymous second verse beginning "Come, bless the Lord, whose love assigns." Other distinct centos were compiled for Williams and Boden's Collection (1801), Edward Bickersteth's Christian Psalmody (1833), and the Islington Psalmody (1862). Thomas Cotterill also published a recast version in 1810 beginning "Again our weekly labours end," while the Harrow School Collection adopted an altered variation beginning "Another week its course has run."