Verse 1
Come, ye thankful people, come
Raise the song of harvest home:
All is safety 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!
Verse 2
All the world is God’s own field,
Fruit unto His praise to yield:
Wheat and tares together sown,
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.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
H. Alford.