O PRAISE our God today: Come, let us haste to pay Due thanks and homage to our King. Bid every power awake, And cheerful music make, While grateful hearts their tributes bring.
O, praise our God today: All who have served Him say How kind and good are all His ways. He is a Friend in need, He is a Friend indeed; Come, now, your grateful worship raise.
O, praise our God today: Let children all obey, And, as of old, Hosannas sing; The Saviour now, as then, Will surely listen when With earnest praise their voices ring.
O, praise our God today: Nor till tomorrow stay, For hours and days are passing fast; This evening’s setting sun May find our work undone, And tell us that our day is past.
O, praise our God today: Our loved ones gone away Now sing in yonder world of light; Come, join the heavenly song, Come, join the ransomed throng Who praise Him ceaseless day and night.
Robert Walmsley, 1831-1905