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Keep Step

Representative Text

1 Keep step, keep step to the army tread,
By the Lord of hosts our Commander led;
Keep step, keep step with the ranks we fill,
Let us all march on, and be faithful still.

Refrain:
Keep step, keep step,
Keep step till the march of life is done;
Keep step, keep step,
Till the victor-crown is won.

2 Keep step, keep step, let our hearts rejoice,
Till we hear the sound of our Leader’s voice;
Keep step, keep step where he bids us go,
To the battle front, and defeat the foe. [Refrain]

3 Keep step, keep step till our feet shall stand
At the pearly gates of the morning land;
Keep step, keep step till we enter there,
And forget our toil in the bliss we share. [Refrain]

Source: Sunday-School Praises: prepared especially for use in the Sunday-School #27

Author: Fanny J. Crosby

Pseudonymns: A.V., Mrs. A. E. Andrews, Mrs. E. A. Andrews, Mrs. E. L. Andrews, James L. Black, Henrietta E. Blair, Charles Bruce, Robert Bruce, Leah Carlton, Eleanor Craddock, Lyman G. Cuyler, D.H.W., Ella Dare, Ellen Dare, Mrs. Ellen Douglass, Lizzie Edwards. Miss Grace Elliot, Grace J. Frances, Victoria Frances, Jennie Garnett, Frank Gould, H. D. K., Frances Hope, Annie L. James, Martha J. Lankton [Langton], Grace Lindsey, Maud Marion, Sallie Martin, Wilson Meade, Alice Monteith, Martha C. Oliver, Mrs. N. D. Plume, Kate Smiley, Sallie Smith, J. L. Sterling, John Sterling, Julia Sterling, Anna C. Storey, Victoria Stuart, Ida Scott Taylor, Mary R. Tilden, Mrs. J. B. Thresher, Hope Tryaway, Grace Tureman, Carrie M. Wilson, W.H.D. Frances… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Keep step, keep step to the army tread
Title: Keep Step
Author: Fanny J. Crosby (1892)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Keep step, keep step
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

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Junior Hymns #45

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Junior Songs #117

New Junior Songs #57

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Praise Him #192

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Sunday-School Praises #27

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The Young People's Hymnal No. 2 #40

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