Captain, we look to Thee

Verse 1
Captain, we look to thee,
Thy promis’d succours claim,
Humbly assur’d of victory
Thro’ thine almighty name:
With furious beasts to fight,
Forth in thy strength we go,
With all the earth-born sons of night,
With all the fiends below.

Verse 2
Hold of thine arm we take,
And fearlessly march on,
The world, the realm of Satan, shake,
And turn it upside down;
’Gainst all the powers of hell
Undaunted we proceed,
Resistless and invincible
Thro’ our triumphant head.

Verse 3
A suffering fight we wage
With man’s oppressive power,
Endure the persecutor’s rage,
Till all the storm is o’er:
Arm’d with the patient mind
Which in our Saviour was,
We bear the hate of all mankind,
And glory in the cross.

Verse 4
To gain that heavenly prize
We gladly suffer here,
And languish in yon opening skies
To see his sign appear:
His sign we soon shall see,
The Lord shall quickly come,
And give the final victory,
And take the conquerors home.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution, second edition, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Farley, 1745). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 4 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 35.
Publishing: Public Domain