Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Come ye thankful people come
Topic: Times and Seasons
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: L Mason
Meter: 7s double
Tune: Eltham
Hymn Number: 812
Page Number: 309, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCome ye thankful people come,
Raise the song of Harvest home!
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
God our Maker doth provide
For our wants to be supplied;
Come to God's own temple, come,
Raise the song of Harvest home!
We ourselves are God's own field,
Fruit unto his praise to yield;
Wheat and tares together sown,
Unto joy our sorrow grown:
First the blade, and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear:
Lord of harvest, grant that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be!
For the Lord our God shall come,
And shall take his harvest home!
From his field shall purge away
All that doth offend, that day:
Give his angels charge at last
In the fires the tares to cast,
But the fruitful ears to store
In his garner evermore.
Then, thou Church triumphant, come,
Raise the song of Harvest home!
All are safely gathered in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin;
There forever, purified,
In God's garner to abide;
Come, ten thousand angels, come,
Raise the glorious Harvest home!