Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Silent like men in solemn haste
Topic: The New Life/Temptations and Conflicts
Writer: <no first name given> Bonar
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 848
Page Number: 499, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSilent, like men in solemn haste,
Girded wayfarers of the waste,
We press along the narrow road
That leads to life, to bliss, to God.
We fling aside the weight and sin,
Resolved the victory to win;
We know the peril, but our eyes
Rest on the splendor of the prize.
No idling now, no wasteful sleep;
We trim our lamps, our vigils keep;
No shrinking from the desperate fight,
No thought of yielding or of flight;
No love of present gain or ease,
No seeking man nor self to please,--
With the brave heart and steady eye,
We onward march to victory.
Night is far spent, and morn is near,--
Morn of the cloudless and the clear;
'T is but a little, and we come
To our reward, our crown, our home.
Another year--it may be less--
And we have crossed the wilderness,
Finished the toil, the rest begun,
The battle fought, the triumph won.