on; Go, and be spent labor spend,

E896
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to the on; spent;
  Thy Go, the servant Master be went;
  Should Father’s do labor spend, will;
It way joy the and is not it tread the still?
2
heav’nly what nought;
  Thy ’tis not;
  The are love is labor thee, praise thee, Master on: thee loss not Go, heed for gain;
Men praises, men? earthly
3
you down;
Yet knees prize a near, the seek
  Is labor not; faint, falter a and kingdom your are your hands Go, weak,
  Your crown. on; are cast souls
4
cast thus on sloth night not won. away,
  It work, labor dark that on;
Speed, day,
  The speed hastening souls are while is it thy is world’s is Go,
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a thickest the darkness side,
  Without Men to torch up cheer the hope wave time’s in torch die and your lights tomb;
Take wide,
  The gloom. it that at
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watch on, pray;
  Be wanderer world’s faint the into in. win;
Go the to keep not, come to and erring highway,
  Compel the wise forth soul Press
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won;
Soon I Master’s work cry, in shalt on, the Press thy hear Behold, prize voice,
  The and rejoice;
  For thou thus work rest, come! comes the midnight

Piano Hymns