“But for a moment”—this valley of sorrows,
Darkened with shadows and heavy with sighs;
Bright dawns the morrow, the glorious morrow!
Faint not! the Lord shall call us to arise!

  “But for a moment”—only a moment!
  Light our affliction—’twill soon pass away.
  “But for a moment”—only a moment!
  Then comes the glory, forever and aye!

“Far more exceeding” the heavenly glory—
Sufferings here with it cannot compare.
Glory eternal the guerdon for anguish,
Radiant crowns, for the thorns, over there.

Temporal things like a vapor shall vanish;
Higher than earth lies the land of our choice:
Upward we press to the home there eternal;
Jesus, the Lord, we behold and rejoice!