O Happy Band of Pilgrims

Verse 1

O happy band of pilgrims, if onward ye will tread, with Jesus as your fellow, to Jesus as your Head!

Verse 2

O happy if ye labour as Jesus did for men! O happy if ye hunger as Jesus hungered then!

Verse 3

The cross that Jesus carried he carried as your due: the crown that Jesus weareth he weareth it for you.

Verse 4

The faith by which ye see him, the hope in which ye yearn, the love that through all troubles to him alone will turn,

Verse 5

the trials that beset you, the sorrows ye endure, the manifold temptations that death alone can cure.

Verse 6

What are they but his jewels of right celestial worth? What are they but the ladder set up to heaven on earth?

Verse 7

O happy band of pilgrims, look upward to the skies, where such a light affliction shall win so great a prize.