No respite or repose we know

Verse 1
No respite, or repose we know
From love’s unwearied services,
By suffering as by action show
Accepted zeal our Lord to please,
We labour ev’n by standing still,
In patient pain his will attend,
In all we do and all we feel,
Till toil and life together end.

Verse 2
O were the happy evening come,
Commencement of that endless day,
When Jesus shall his power assume,
And all his faithful labourers pay!
Distributing rewards to all,
The weakest first he bids draw near,
Who last obey’d the gospel-call,
And labour’d in the vineyard here.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘So when even was come, the Lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.’—[Matt. 20,] v. 8.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 332.
Publishing: Public Domain