- F Alto Recorder
- C Tenor Recorder
- F Bass Recorder
- C Great Bass Recorder
- 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, doth provide
- For our wants to be supplied:
- Come to God's own temple, come,
- Raise the song of harvest-home.
- Verse 2
- All this world is God's own field,
- Fruit unto his praise to yield;
- Wheat and tares 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 the harvest home;
- From His field shall in that 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,
- Bring Thy final harvest home;
- Gather Thou Thy people in,
- Free from sorrow, free from sin,
- There, for ever purified,
- In Thy presence to abide;
- Come, with all Thine angels, come,
- Raise the glorious harvest-home.
- September 25, 2022 entry for the 2022 Weekly Hymns Challenge.
- St. George’s Windsor composed 1856 by Sir George Job Elvy (1816-1893).
- Lyrics written 1844 by Henry Alford (1810-1871)
- Hymn #577 in The Hymnary Of The United Church of Canada