Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: To praise the ever bounteous Lord
Topic: Providence
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: Song 31
Page Number: 154, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTO praise the ever bounteous Lord,
My soul, wake all thy powers;
He calls, and at his voice come forth
The smiling harvest hours.
His covenant with the earth he keeps;
My tongue, his goodness sing;
Summer and winter know their time,
His harvest crowns the spring.
Well pleas'd, the toiling swains behold
The waving yellow crop;
With joy they bear the sheaves away,
And sow again in hope.
Thus teach me, gracious God, to sow
The seeds of righteousness;
Smile on my soul, and with thy beams
The rip'ning harvest bless.
Then in the last great harvest, I
Shall reap a glorious crop,
The harvest shall by far exceed
What I have sown in hope.