Text:Strive For Eternal Day
Author:Albina Louisa Bean
Tune:[O brother, strive! thy crown is not yet won]
Composer:William Fiske Sherwin
Media:MIDI file

8261. Strive For Eternal Day

1 O brother, strive! thy crown is not yet won;
Strive! for the night is coming on apace!
The day will soon be gone,
Soon will be closed the race—
O brother, strive!

Refrain:
Strive, strive, strive,
Strive for the narrow way,
Strive, strive, strive;
Strive for eternal day.

2 Strive! for a cloud of witnesses surround,
Each step is marked, of victory or defeat;
Then leave no vantage ground
For Satan’s wary feet—
O brother, strive! [Refrain]

3 Strive! tho’ thy way be darkened, rough and steep,
Thy Father’s hand shall guide thee thro’ the night;
Thy faltering footsteps keep,
Make all thy darkness light;
O brother, strive! [Refrain]

4 Strive! for the world ne’er offered prize like this,
A crown whose glory ages shall not dim!
God holds for thee such bliss,
Live thou for Him, for Him!
O brother, strive! [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: O brother, strive! thy crown is not yet won
Title: Strive For Eternal Day
Author: Albina Louisa Bean (1874)
Refrain First Line: Strive, strive, strive
Language: English
Source: Songs of Grace and Glory by William F. Sherwin and Silas J. Vail (New York: Horace Waters & Son, 1874)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: [O brother, strive! thy crown is not yet won]
Composer: William Fiske Sherwin
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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