Hymn: There's a strife we all must wage
- Title:
- First Line: There's a strife we all must wage
- Hymnal: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)
- Denomination: Unitarians and Universalists
- Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
- Publication Date: 1866
Author(s)
- Author Name: Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch
- Born: 1809
- Died: 1870
- Gender: M
Full Text
There's a strife we all must wage, From life's entrance to its close; Blest the bold who dare engage! Woe for him who seeks repose! Honored they who firmly stand, While the conflict presses round; God's own banner in their hand, In his service faithful found. What our foes? Each thought impure Passions fierce, that tear the soul; Every ill that we can cure; Every crime we can control; Every suffering which our hand Can with soothing care assuage; Every evil of our land; Every error of our age. On, then, to the glorious field! He who dies his life shall save; God himself shall be our shield, He shall bless and crown the brave.