114. Fight for Sion

Christians! to the war!
Gather from afar!
Hark! hark! the word is given;
Jesus bids us fight
"For God and the Right,
And for Mary, the Queen of Heaven! ''

Now first for thee, thou wicked world,
Puffed up with godless pomp and pageant;
Avenging grace to humble thee
Can make the weakest arm its ao;ent.
Christians! to the war!
Gather from afar!
Hark! hark! the word is given;
Jesus bids us fight
" For God and the Right,
And for Mary, the Queen of Heaven! "

And thou, dark fiend, six thousand years
The Bride of Christ in vain tormenting,
Shalt find our hate and scorn of thee
Deep as thine own, and unrelenting.
Christians! to the war!
Gather from afar!
Hark! hark! the word is given;
Jesus bids us fight
" For God and the Right,
And for Mary, the Queen of Heaven! "

Ah self! so oft forgiven, thou
Canst play no part but that of traitor;
We spare thy life; but thou must bear
The felon's brand, the captive's fetter.
Christians! to the war!
Gather from afar!
Hark! hark! the word is given;
Jesus bids us fight
" For God and the Right,
And for Mary, the Queen of Heaven! ''

But worse than devil, flesh, or world.
Human respect, like poison creeping.
Chills and unnerves the hosts of Christ,
When weary war-worn hearts are sleeping.
Christians! to the war!
Gather from afar!
Hark! hark! the word is given j
Jesus bids us fght
" For God and the Right,
And for Mary, the Queen of Heaven I "

Like lions roaring for their prey,
Armies of foes are round us trooping:
What then? see! countless angels come
To heal the hurt, to raise the drooping.
Christians! to the war!
Gather from afar!
Hark! hark! the word is given;
Jesus bids us fight
'' For God and the Eight,
And for Mary, the Queen of Heaven! "

Tbei> bravely, comrades, to the fight,
With shout and song each other cheering;
Strength not our own from heaven descends.
The sun breaks out, the clouds are clearing.
Christians! to the war!
Gather from afar!
Hark! hark! the word is given;
Jesus bids us fight
" For God and the Right,
And for Mary, the Queen of Heaven! "

On to the gates of Sion, on!
Break through the foe with fresh endeavor;
We'll hang our colors up in heaven,
When peace shall be proclaimed for ever.
Christians! to the war!
Gather from afar!
Hark! hark! the word is given;
Jesus bids us fight
"For God and the Right,
And for Mary, the Queen of Heaven! ''