COME YE THANKFUL PEOPLE

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 needs to be supplied;

Come to God's own temple, come,

Raise the song of harvest-home.




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.




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.




Even so, Lord, quickly come,

Bring Thy final harvest home;

Gather Thou Thy people in,

Free from sorrow, free from sin;

There, forever purified,

In Thy garner to abide:

Come, with all Thine angels, come,

Raise the glorious harvest-home.