# A Journeying Song for the Camp of Israel

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This may have been sung at the departure of the Mormon pioneers from Winter Quarters at the start of the journey to Salt Lake.
    Dedicated to President B. Young and Lady.
The time of winter now is o’er—  There’s verdure on the plain; We leave our shelt’ring roofs once more,  And to our tents again.
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
We go to choice and goodly lands,  With rich and fertile soil: That, with the labour of our hands,  Will yield us wine and oil.
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
We go beside the mountain cliffs  Where purest waters flow— Where nature will her precious gifts  Abundantly bestow.
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
We’ll find a climate pure and free  Producing life and health; Where steady care and industry  Will be a source of wealth.
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
And there again we will surround  In peace, the luscious board; And share the products of the ground  With skill and prudence stor’d.  Chorus—Thou Camp of Israel, &c.
We leave the mobbing Gentile race,  Who thirst to shed our blood; To rest in Jacob’s hiding place  Where Nephite temples stood.
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
We seek a land where truth will reign,  And innocence be free— Where lawful rights will be maintain’d—  A land of liberty.
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
We seek a land of holiness,  Where justice to the line And to the plummet, righteousness  Will ev’ry work define.
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
We go where virtue will be known,  And merit meet its due; For Zion’s pathway will be shown  With light and glory too.
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
We go where hypocrites will fear  And tremble at the word, Of him, who is appointed here  To wield the two-edg’d sword.
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
We’ll find the land the prophet saw  In Vision, when he said; “There, there will the celestial law  Be given and obey’d.”
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
We go where nations yet will come  In ships, from climes abroad; To seek protection, and a home,  And worship Israel’s God.
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
We’ll build in peace and safety there,  A city to the Lord: And shout amid our toils to share  A Latter-day’s reward.
 Chorus  Thou Camp of Israel! onward move—  O Jacob! rise and sing.  Ye Saints! the world’s salvation prove,  All hail! to Zion’s King.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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