Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Fountain of life and God of love
Topic: Times and Seasons/Seed-Time and Harvest
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 1232
Page Number: 737, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFountain of life, and God of love!
How rich thy bounties are!
The rolling seasons, as they move,
Proclaim thy constant care.
When in the bosom of the earth
The sower hid the grain,
They goodness marked its secret birth,
And sent the early rain.
The spring's sweet influence, Lord, was thine,
Its mild refreshing showers;
Thou gav'st the ripening suns to shine,
And summer's golden hours.
Thy quickening life, for ever near,
Matured the swelling grain;
The bounteous harvest crowns the year
And plenty fills the plain.
With thankful hearts we trace thy way
Through all our smiling vales;
Thou, by whose love, nor night nor day,
Seed-time nor harvest fails!