Scripture Verse

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:22

Introduction

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Fanny Crosby (1820–1915)

Words: Fan­ny Cros­by, in The Gos­pel Choir No. 2, ed­it­ed by Ira San­key, James Mc­Gra­na­han & George C. Steb­bins (New York: Big­low & Main, 1895), num­ber 53.

Music: Ira D. San­key (🔊 pdf nwc).

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Ira D. Sankey (1840–1908)

Lyrics

We praise Thee, O Lord,
For the boun­ti­ful har­vest
That now has been ga­thered
And gar­nered with care;
Rewarding the toil of
The sow­er and reap­er,
While all in its bless­ings may share.

Refrain

For the boun­ti­ful har­vest
We praise Thee, we thank Thee
And bless Thee, O Lord:
For the boun­ti­ful har­vest
We praise Thee and bless Thee, O Lord.

We praise Thee, O Lord,
For the boun­ti­ful har­vest,
We praise Thee for sun­shine,
The dew and the rain;
For soft sum­mer breez­es
So grace­ful­ly bend­ing
The bright gold­en bil­lows of grain.

Refrain

We praise Thee, O Lord,
For the won­der­ful token
That shines as it shone on
Thy ser­vants of old,
The pledge and as­sur­ance
That seed­time and har­vest
From earth Thou wilt ne­ver with­hold.

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We praise Thee, O Lord,
For Thy won­der­ful mer­cies,
And while to Thy glo­ry
Our voic­es we raise,
O Thou that re­gard­est
The pray­ers of Thy peo­ple,
Accept our thanks­giv­ing and praise.

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