"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!