Awake, Awake to Love and Work

lyricist: Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy, 1921
Composer: Kentucky Harmony, 1816

Awake

awake to love and work!

The lark is in the sky;

The fields are wet with dia­mond dew;

The worlds awake to cry

Their bless­ings on the Lord of life

As He goes meek­ly by.

Come

let thy voice be one with theirs

Shout with their shout of praise;

See how the gi­ant sun soars up

Great lord of years and days!

So let the love of Je­sus come

And set thy soul ablaze.

To give and give

and give again

What God hath giv­en thee;

To spend thy­self nor count the cost;

To serve right glo­ri­ous­ly

The God who gave all worlds that are

And all that are to be.

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