"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!