Christ My Song - 2114
We leave now behind us - The Heavenward March
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
The Heavenward March.
1. We leave now behind us
the world and its crowd,
we set now before us
the home of our God.
We take up our cross now
to follow the Lamb;
we close round his banner,
for glory or shame. PDF - Midi
2. We take up the armour
our Captain hath given,
the sword and the breastplate,
the helmet of heaven.
In faith thus defying
the foe and the sin,
we fight our life's battle;
we fight and we win.
Horatius Bonar, Hymns of Faith and Hope III, 1878, 91-92.