Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
John 4:35
Words & Music: Jasper P. Sewell, in Songland Melodies, edited by Horace N. Lincoln (Dallas, Texas: Songland Company, 1898) (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Sewell (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
’Tis never too late to be working,
The fields are all shining so bright;
Go work in them now with all pleasure,
And bring in the sheaves with delight.
Refrain
Go labor today,
the summons obey;
The fields are so bright,
Go gather the sheaves while you may.
’Tis never too late to be working,
While calls for the laborers we hear;
The call is to all that are idle,
O list to the summons so dear.
Refrain
’Tis never too late to be working,
For Jesus who saved us from sin;
Then ever be ready and willing,
To gather the wanderers in.
Refrain