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!