The Cyber Hymnal ‎#6644

6644. This Is the Day of Toil

1. This is the day of toil
Beneath earth’s sultry noon;
This is the day of service true,
But resting cometh soon.

Refrain
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
There remains a rest for us.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
There remains a rest for us.

2. Spend and be spent would we,
While lasteth time’s brief day;
No turning back in coward fear,
No lingering by the way. [Refrain]

3. Onward we press in haste,
Upward our journey still
Ours is the path the Master trod
Thro’ good report and ill. [Refrain]

4. The way may rougher grow,
The weariness increase;
We gird our loins and hasten on,
The end, the end is peace. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: This is the day of toil
• Title: This Is the Day of Toil
• Author: Horatius Bonar (1866)
• Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
• Language: English
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: [This is the day of toil]
• Composer: George Coles Stebbins
• Incipit: 12333 21345 55435
• Key: F Major
• Copyright: Public Domain