Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Come ye thankful people come
Topic: Times and Seasons/Seed-Time and Harvest
Writer: Henry Alford
Composer:
Meter: 7s double
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1236
Page Number: 739, 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 or 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 for ever, purified,
In God's garner to abide:
Come, ten thousand angels, come,
Raise the glorious Harvest-home!