Go Labor On
- Words:
- Horatius Bonar
- Music:
- Lowell Mason
Sheet music
- 1Go, labor on: spend, and be spentThy joy to do the Father’s will;It is the way the Master went:Should not the servant tread it still?Go, labor on: ’tis not for naughtThy earthly loss is heav’nly gain;Men heed thee, love thee, praise thee not;The Master praises: what are men?
- 2Toil on, faint not, keep watch and pray;Be wise the erring soul to win;Go forth into the world’s highway,Compel the wand’rer to come in.Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice;For work comes rest, for exile home;Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom’s voice,The midnight peal, “Behold, I come.”
In the hymnals
- Written in 1843, the words are in 474 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.