When, past this night preparatory,
Our bodies, all their labour done,
Shall shine for ever like the sun,
In one long Day of summer glory.
Meantime let us, each day and night,
Repent of sin with deep compunction;
More wary walk, as in His Sight,
And pray with all the Spirit’s Unction:
Then come He in what watch soever,
Go forth we will with ready feet,