Text: | Come, Labor On |
Author: | Jane Laurie Borthwick |
Tune: | ORA LABORA |
Composer: | Thomas Tertius Noble |
1 Come, labor on.
Who dares stand idle, on the harvest plain
While all around him waves the golden grain?
And to each servant does the Master say,
“Go work today.”
2 Come, labor on.
Claim the high calling angels cannot share;
To young and old the Gospel gladness bear.
Redeem the time; its hours too swiftly fly.
The night draws nigh.
3 Come, labor on.
Away with gloomy doubts and faithless fear!
No arm so weak but may do service here;
Though feeble agents, may we all fulfill
God's righteous will.
4 Come, labor on.
No time for rest, till glows the western sky,
Till the long shadows o’er our pathway lie,
And a glad sound comes with the setting sun,
“Well done, well done!”
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Come, labor on |
Title: | Come, Labor On |
Author: | Jane Laurie Borthwick (1859; rev. 1863; alt.) |
Meter: | 4.10.10.10.4 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Scripture: | ; |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ORA LABORA |
Composer: | Thomas Tertius Noble (1918) |
Meter: | 4.10.10.10.4 |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Copyright: | Copyright © 1918, 1946, 1982 Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission. |