Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: We are living we are dwelling
Topic: Times and Seasons/Missionary Assemblies
Writer: A Coxe
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1277
Page Number: 764, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWe are living, we are dwelling
In a grand and awful time,
In an age on ages telling:
To be living is sublime.
Hark! the onset! will ye fold your
Faith-clad arms in lazy lock?
Up! O, up! thou drowsy soldier;
Worlds are charging to the shock.
Worlds are charging, heaven beholding;
thou hast but an hour to fight;
Now, the blazoned cross unfolding,
On! right onward for the right.
On! let all the soul within you
For the truth's sake go abroad:
Strike! let every nerve and sinew
Tell on ages-tell for God.