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"Forward!" be our watchword,

   Steps and voices joined;

Seek the things before us,

   Not a look behind;

Burns the fiery pillar

   At our army's head;

Who shall dream of shrinking,

   By our Captain led?

Forward through the desert,

   Through the toil and fight.

Heaven's Kingdom waits us,

   Forward into light.

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Glories upon glories

   Hath our God prepared,

By the souls that love Him,

   One day that be shared:

Eye hath not beheld them,

   Ear hath never heard;

Nor of these hath uttered

   Thought or speech or word;

Forward, marching forward

   Where the kingdom's bright,

Till the veil be lifted,

   Till our faith be sight!