Through life’s brief, fleeting hour,
And gives the Spirit’s quickening ray
To those who seek his power.
2 The Saviour bids us watch and pray,
Maintain a warrior’s strife;
Help, Lord, to hear thy voice to-day;
Obedience is our life.
3 The Saviour bids us watch and pray;
For soon the hour will come
That calls us from the earth away,