8260 | The Cyber Hymnal#8261 | 8262 |
Text: | Strive For Eternal Day |
Author: | Albina Louisa Bean |
Tune: | [O brother, strive! thy crown is not yet won] |
Composer: | William Fiske Sherwin |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 O brother, strive! thy crown is not yet won;
Strive! for the night is coming on apace!
The day will soon be gone,
Soon will be closed the race—
O brother, strive!
Refrain:
Strive, strive, strive,
Strive for the narrow way,
Strive, strive, strive;
Strive for eternal day.
2 Strive! for a cloud of witnesses surround,
Each step is marked, of victory or defeat;
Then leave no vantage ground
For Satan’s wary feet—
O brother, strive! [Refrain]
3 Strive! tho’ thy way be darkened, rough and steep,
Thy Father’s hand shall guide thee thro’ the night;
Thy faltering footsteps keep,
Make all thy darkness light;
O brother, strive! [Refrain]
4 Strive! for the world ne’er offered prize like this,
A crown whose glory ages shall not dim!
God holds for thee such bliss,
Live thou for Him, for Him!
O brother, strive! [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O brother, strive! thy crown is not yet won |
Title: | Strive For Eternal Day |
Author: | Albina Louisa Bean (1874) |
Refrain First Line: | Strive, strive, strive |
Language: | English |
Source: | Songs of Grace and Glory by William F. Sherwin and Silas J. Vail (New York: Horace Waters & Son, 1874) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [O brother, strive! thy crown is not yet won] |
Composer: | William Fiske Sherwin |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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