Our Autumn Hymn

This is the hymn we are memorizing for our Autumn Hymn Study. We learn 3 songs per season - 1 hymn, 1 praise / worship song, and one other song such as patriotic tunes or folk songs. This particular hymn is to be sung at Thanksgiving Dinner in November. We enjoy singing together every morning following our Bible Study, and have learned several other songs this season. We also use this time (we call it Memory Work) to memorize poems, scripture passages, and other songs too.

COME YE THANKFUL PEOPLE COME

Hymn composed 1844 by Dr. Henry Alford (1810-1871)

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.

2

All the 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.

3

For the Lord our God shall come,

And shall take His harvest home;

From His field shall in that day

All offenses purge away,

Giving angels charge at last

In the fire the tares to cast;

But the fruitful ears to store

In His garner evermore.

4

Even so, Lord, quickly come,

Bring Thy final harvest home;

Gather Thou Thy people in,

Free from sorrow, free from sin,

There, forever purified,

In Thy garner to abide;

Come, with all Thine angels come,

Raise the glorious harvest home.

The tune for this hymn can be heard here:

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/c/o/comeytpc.htm

And the "story" of this hymn can be read here: http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Poetry/Come-Ye-Thankful-People.html