Scripture Verse

Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. John 4:35

Introduction

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),

Lyrics

’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