Come, Ye Thankful People

Verse 1 Come, ye thankful people, come,
Raise the song of harvest home;
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
God, our Maker, does provide
For our needs to be supplied;
Come, to God's own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest home.

Verse 2 All the world is God's own field,
Fruit unto His praise to yield;
Wheat and weeds 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.

Verse 3 For the Lord our God shall come
And shall take His harvest home;
From His field in that great day
All offenses 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.

Verse 4 Even so, Lord, quickly come
To Thy final harvest home;
Gather Thou Thy people in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin—
There, forever purified,
In Thy presence to abide;
Come, with all Thine angels come,
Raise the glorious harvest home.