Text: | Come, ye thankful people, come |
Author: | Henry Alford |
Tune: | ST. GEORGE’S, WINDSOR |
Composer: | George J. Ellvey |
1 COME, 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!
2 All the world is 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.
3 For the Lord our God shall come,
And shall take His harvest home;
From His field shall in that day
All offences purge away;
Give His angels charge at last
In the fire the tares to cast;
But the fruitful ears to store
In His garner evermore.
4 Even so, Lord, quickly come
To Thy final Harvest-home,
Gather Thou Thy people in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin;
There for ever purified,
In Thy presence to abide:
Come, with all Thine angels, come;
Raise the glorious Harvest-home.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Come, ye thankful people, come |
Title: | Come, ye thankful people, come |
Author: | Henry Alford |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2015 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | The Godhead: Creation and Providence |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. GEORGE’S, WINDSOR |
Composer: | George J. Ellvey |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7.D. |
Incipit: | 33531 23335 31233 |
Key: | G Major or modal |