LABORER'S SONG OF CHEER TO HIS FELLOWS.
Toilers in doubt and gloom,
Cheer up again!
Round us is ample room,
Waiting for men!
Let us not groan and sigh,
Let us not sullen lie,
Let us not tamely die,
Let us be men! Long in the thorny way
Others have trod,
Waiting the better day,
Trusting in God;
Let us the burden bear,
Bravely the trouble share,
Burying the load of care
Under the sod. Let us all love the right,
Let us be true;
Soon will the loving light
Break on our view.
Let us all patient be,
Till the glad day we see
When we shall happy be,
Toiling anew! Brothers in pain and fear,
Let us be bold!
Be not the bitter tear
Bartered for gold!
Let us not idly weep,
Let us not slothful sleep,
Let us our virtue keep
Ne'er to be sold. Brothers with sorrow bowed,
Let us be one;
Brightly beyond the cloud
Shineth the sun;
Soon will the light appear;
God will in mercy hear,
God will dry up the tear,
God's will be done. Brothers in doubt and gloom,
Cheer up again!
Round us is ample room,
Waiting for men!
Let us not groan and sigh,
Let us not sullen lie,
Let us not tamely die,
Let us be men.