1.

Serve, give your life now to strengthen the others.
Serve when you drink of life’s bitterest fount.
Serve when your path leads through briars and thistles;
Serve midst the trials, too many to count.

2.

Suffer, be quiet; in love bear the others.
Learn of the Master, so humble and blest.
When you must walk through the vale of death’s shadow,
Trust in the Lord and abide in His rest.

3.

Wash now your face; let your head be anointed.
Serve, serve the poor, thirsty, hungering soul.
Share with the others the good you’ve been given;
Peace like a river will then flood your soul.

Written by Ingrid Bekkevold (published in 1937)Composed by Even SkogsrudText and melody © Stiftelsen Skjulte Skatters ForlagNorway ⋅ F