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Watch and Pray

Author: George Cooper Meter: Irregular Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: While the sun is warm and bright Lyrics: 1 While the sun is warm and bright, Watch and pray! Soon will fall the gloom of night, Watch and pray! While the days of youth go by, Let them not unheeded fly; While our hopes are beating high, Watch and pray! Watch and pray! 2 Soon the Saviour's voice shall call, Watch and pray! Heed the warning that may fall, Watch and pray! In the bud and bloom of life, When the sweetest joys are rife In the weary maze of strife, Watch and pray! Watch and pray! 3 Lest ye heed the tempter's cry, Watch and pray! Though your troubled hearts may sigh, Watch and pray! Lo! the hour is close at hand, We are near the heavenly land, Heed our loving Lord's command, Watch and pray! Watch and pray! Text Sources: Millard's S. S. Chaplet, p. 11.

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[While the sun is warm and bright]

Appears in 1 hymnal Incipit: 55555 66771 55555 Used With Text: Watch and Pray

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While the sun is warm and bright

Author: George Cooper Hymnal: Gathered Leaves of Sunday School Song #154 (1876) Lyrics: 1 While the sun is warm and bright, Watch and pray! Soon will fall the gloom of night, Watch and pray! While the days of youth go by, Let them not unheeded fly; While our hopes are beating high, Watch and pray! Watch and pray! 2 Soon the Saviour's voice shall call, Watch and pray! Heed the warning that may fall, Watch and pray! In the bud and bloom of life, When the sweetest joys are rife In the weary maze of strife, Watch and pray! Watch and pray! 3 Lest ye heed the tempter's cry, Watch and pray! Though your troubled hearts may sigh, Watch and pray! Lo! the hour is close at hand, We are near the heavenly land, Heed our loving Lord's command, Watch and pray! Watch and pray! Languages: English

Watch and Pray

Hymnal: Millard's Hymns, Songs and Carols #24 (1882) First Line: While the sun is warm and bright Languages: English Tune Title: [While the sun is warm and bright]

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George Cooper

1840 - 1927 Author of "Watch and Pray" George Cooper, poet, was born in the city of New York, May 14, 1840 son of John and Hepzibah Cooper, He was educated in the public schools of his native city, and afterwards studied law under the late Chester A. Arthur. After practicing for a short time, he renounced his profession to devote himself to the vocation to which his natural gifts inclined him. In his early years, he had developed a taste for writing, and before his sixteenth year had begun to contribute acceptable verses to several leading magazines. Encouraged by the success that met his early productions, he wrote constantly, and became a regular contributor to such periodicals as “The Independent,” “Harpers’ Young People,” and “Harper’s Magazine,” “Atlantic Monthly,” “Putman’s Monthly,” “Our Young Folks,” and “Appleton’s Journal.” Writing constantly for more than a decade, Mr. Cooper has frequently enriched the periodical literature of America by verses of much felicity, and has attracted a wide circle, among his poems are always welcomed with pleasure. His happiest verse has been written for children, and in it lies his chief claim to remembrance. A number of his children’s poems have been published in the collection known as “School and Home Melodies;” and he also issued a volume of hymns consisting exclusively of his own writing and entitled, “The Chaplet.” Among his best-known songs are: “Beautiful Isle of the Sea,” “Must We Then Meet as Strangers,” “Sweet Genevieve,” “While the days Are Going By,” and “God Bless the Little Church Around the Corner.” He has written song words for such composers as Wallace, Abt, Thomas, Millard, and Foster. Of His Other poems, “After,” and “Hereafter” are general favorites; the “Ballad of the Storming of Stony Point” was awarded a prize, and “Learning to Walk” was honored by a commendation from the late William Cullen Bryant. Mr. Cooper was married, in 1877, to Mary E., Daughter of William Tyson, and has since resided at Jersey Heights, where he still employs his leisure in writing. --http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/only-one-mother-–-a-poem