1  "Forward!" be our watchword,

       Steps and voices joined;

    Seek the things before us,

       Not a look behind;

    Burns the fiery pillar

       At our army's head;

    Who shall dream of shrinking,

       By our Captain led?

    Forward through the desert,

       Through the toil and fight.

    Heaven's Kingdom waits us,

       Forward into light.

 2  Glories upon glories

       Hath our God prepared,

    By the souls that love Him,

       One day that be shared:

    Eye hath not beheld them,

       Ear hath never heard;

    Nor of these hath uttered

       Thought or speech or word;

    Forward, marching forward

       Where the kingdom's bright,

    Till the veil be lifted,

       Till our faith be sight!