Brother Man, Awake!
- Words:
- Oscar E. Maurer
- Music:
- John P. Marshall
Sheet music
- 1Brother man, awake!Strength withers, of tomorrow dreaming;Life’s ripened grain today is gleaming;Peer not ahead for duties new:Awake! Be true!Brother man, lay hold!This is no time for idle scorning;East is aflame with New Year’s morning;Short is the day, the workers few:Lay hold! Be true!
- 2Brother man, give ear!Hear human needs for helpers calling,Voices insistent calling, calling;Hear, from the throng love speaks to you!God’s man, Be true!Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1908, the words are in 6 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.