Text: | Come, Labor On |
Author: | Jane L. Borthwick (1813-1807) alt. |
Tune: | ORA LABORA |
Composer: | T. Tertius Noble (1867-1953) |
1 Come, labor on.
Who dares stand idle on the harvest plain
While all around him waves the golden grain?
And to each servant does the Master say,
“Go work today.”
2 Come, labor on.
Claim the high calling angels cannot share;
To young and old the gospel gladness bear;
Redeem the time; its hours too swiftly fly.
The night draws nigh.
3 Come, labor on.
No time for rest; till glows the western sky,
Till the long shadows oér our pathway lie,
And a glad sound comes with the setting sun,
“Well done, well done!”
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Come, labor on. Who dares stand idle |
Title: | Come, Labor On |
Author: | Jane L. Borthwick (1813-1807) alt. (1863) |
Meter: | 4.10.10.10.4. |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Topic: | Christian Church: Mission of the Church |
Copyright: | Copyright © 1918 by The H. W. Gray Company, a division of Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. Used by permission. All rights reserved. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ORA LABORA |
Composer: | T. Tertius Noble (1867-1953) (1916) |
Meter: | 4.10.10.10.4. |
Incipit: | 56551 76536 65453 |
Key: | A♭ Major |