159. Go, Labor On

1. Go, labor on: spend, and be spent,
Thy joy to do the Father's will;
It is the way the master went;
Should not the servant tread it still?

2. Go, labor on while it is day:
The world's dark night is hastening on;
Speed, speed thy work, cast sloth away;
It is not thus that souls are won.

3. Toil on, faint not, keep watch and pray,
Be wise the erring soul to win;
Go forth into the world's highway,
Compel the wanderer to come in.

Text Information
First Line: Go, labor on; spend, and be spent
Title: Go, Labor On
Author: Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889
Meter: L M
Language: English
Publication Date: 1966
Tune Information
Name: DEUS TUORUM MILITUM
Meter: L M
Incipit: 13515 43211 31671
Key: C Major
Source: Adapted from Grenoble Antiphoner, 1868
Copyright: Harmonization from Geer's Hymnal for Colleges and Schools. Used with permission of Yale University Press.



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