Text: | Say not, The struggle nought availeth |
Author: | Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-1861 |
Tune: | BOLTON |
Composer: | J. T. Lightwood, 1856- |
1 Say not, The struggle nought availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
2 If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke concealed,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And but for you possess the field.
3 For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
4 And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow how slowly!
But westward, look! the land is bright.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Say not, The struggle nought availeth |
Author: | Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-1861 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | Conflict (see also Warfare): Christian's; The Church and the Kingdom of God: Social Service; Righteousness: Social(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BOLTON |
Composer: | J. T. Lightwood, 1856- |
Meter: | 9.8.9.8 |
Key: | A Major |