While the earth remains, seed time and harvest…shall not cease.
Genesis 8:22
Words: Frances W. Danielson, Songs for Little People (New York and Cincinnati, Ohio: Eaton & Mains and Jennings & Graham, 1905), number 38.
Music: Scotch air (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Danielson (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Pumpins are heaped in piles,
Big and round and yellow;
Apples are stored away,
Rosy-cheeked and mellow;
Oats and barley fill each bin,
Corn and wheat are gathered in,
Fragrance of new-mown hay
Through the wide barn passes—
Scent of summer grasses.
Squirrels their plans have laid,
For the winter weather.
Brown nuts are packed away,
Lying snug together.
Through the sunny summer hours
Bees were stealing sweets from flow’rs,
Now they need have no fear,
With their golden treasure—
Honey without measure.
Father of child and bee,
For us ever caring,
Squirrel and smallest bird
In Thy bounty sharing;
Hear us sing our harvest song,
Of Thy love the whole year long.
Father of child and bee,
We our thanks are bringing—
Listen to our singing.