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Praise him, ye bright people
Author: Eva Nicholas, c1877-before 1956 Hymnal: CPWI2010 #714 (2010) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain First Line: In this our beauteous island Lyrics: 1 In this our beauteous island*
God smiles his sweetest smile;
from ferny dell and covert
wild flowers our eyes beguile;
among the leafy branches
the ripened mangoes sway,
and green pimento berries
make fragrant God's bright day.
Refrain:
Praise him, ye bright people,
with harvest hymn of joy;
O give to God a hymn of praise,
and love without alloy.
2 The creamy breadfruit blossoms
point upward to the sky,
to tell that God's rich blessings
fall on us from on high.
The canefields wave in greeting,
clad in their verdant dress;
and citrus fruits swing slowly
in golden loveliness. [Refrain]
3 We thank thee for the sunlight
on each day newly born,
that blends with rain in blessing
the tender ears of corn:
that ripens into beauty
fair fruits of every kind –
bananas, pears, star-apples,
and cherries purple-lined. [Refrain]
4 Young coconuts encircle
the warm hearts of the trees,
beneath the green boughs hiding,
and rustle in the breeze.
Nature her many voices,
each day with joy uplifts!
Shall we not thank our Father
for all his wondrous gifts. [Refrain]
*Alternative first line:
In this our bounteous country Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Harvest Languages: English Tune Title: WIR PFLÜGEN
Praise him, ye bright people
for his mercies aye endure
Author: John Milton, 1608-1674 Hymnal: CPWI2010 #715 (2010) Meter: 7.7.7.7 First Line: Let us, with a gladsome mind Lyrics: 1 Let us, with a gladsome mind,
praise the Lord, for he is kind:
Refrain:
for his mercies aye endure,
ever faithful, ever sure.
2 Let us blaze his name abroad,
for of gods he is the God: [Refrain]
3 He with all-commanding might
filled the new-made world with light: [Refrain]
4 He the golden-tressèd sun
caused all day his course to run: [Refrain]
5 And the hornèd moon at night
'mid her spangled sisters bright: [Refrain]
6 All things living he doth feed,
his full hand supplies their need: [Refrain]
7 Let us, with a gladsome mind,
praise the Lord, for he is kind: [Refrain] Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Harvest Scripture: Psalm 136 Languages: English Tune Title: MONKLAND
for his mercies aye endure
Once more, O Lord, we come to thee
Author: Gilbert Thompson Hymnal: CPWI2010 #716 (2010) Lyrics: 1 Once more, O Lord, we come to thee,
to offer thanks and praise –
the harvest time has come again -
our grateful songs we raise.
Some fruits we bring have come from near,
some gifts from distant lands –
bananas, sugar, citrus, pears,
all offering from our hands.
2 We thank you, Lord, for sea and san,
which help our tourist trade –
for sunshine warm and summer rain
on isles where pirates preyed.
In songs we chant our gratitude;
for loved ones dear to us,
health, family, friends and multitudes
of gifts that earn our trust.
3 Today in our Caribbean land
once more we bring our praise –
thanks-giving time has come again:
our voices we shall raise.
Another year has come and gone;
we have been blessed once more –
the offering, which your people bring,
flow, from your boundless store. Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Harvest Languages: English Tune Title: CLAUDIUS
Once more, O Lord, we come to thee
for his mercies will endure
Author: Henry Williams Baker, 1821-1877 Hymnal: CPWI2010 #717 (2010) Meter: 7.7.7.7 First Line: Praise, O praise our God and King Lyrics: 1 Praise, O praise our God and King;
hymns of adoration sing:
Refrain:
for his mercies still endure
ever faithful, ever sure.
2 Praise him that he made the sun
day by day his course to run: [Refrain]
3 And the silver moon by night,
shining with her gentle light: [Refrain]
4 Praise him that he gave the rain
to mature the swelling grain: [Refrain]
5 And hath bid the fruitful field
crops of precious increase yield: [Refrain]
6 Praise him for our harvest-store;
he hath filled the garner-floor: [Refrain]
7 And for richer food than this,
pledge of everlasting bliss: [Refrain]
8 Glory to our bounteous King;
glory let creation sing:
Final Refrain:
glory to the Father, Son,
and Blest Spirit, Three in One. Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Harvest Scripture: Psalm 136:1-2 Languages: English Tune Title: MONKLAND
for his mercies will endure
Praise to God, immortal praise
Author: Anna Laetitia Aiken Barbauld, 1743-1825 Hymnal: CPWI2010 #718 (2010) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Lyrics: 1 Praise to God, immortal praise,
for the love that crowns our days!
Bounteous source of every joy,
let thy praise our tongues employ:
2 for the blessings of the fields,
for the stores the gardens yield,
flocks that whiten all the plain,
yellow sheaves of ripened grain;
3 all that spring with bounteous hand
scatters o'er the smiling land;
all that liberal autumn pours
from her rich o'erflowing stores.
4 These to thee, my God, we owe,
source whence all our blessings flow;
and for these our souls shall raise
grateful vows and solemn praise. Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Harvest Languages: English Tune Title: CULBACH (ACH WANN)
Praise to God, immortal praise
Praise and thanksgiving, Father, we offer
Author: Albert Frederick Bayly, 1901-1984 Hymnal: CPWI2010 #719 (2010) Meter: 10.9.10.9 Lyrics: 1 Praise and thanksgiving, Father, we offer,
for all things living thou madest good:
harvest of sown fields, fruits of the orchard,
hay from the mown fields, blossom and wood.
2 God thou the labour we bring to serve thee,
that with our neighbour we may be fed.
Sowing or tilling, we would work with thee;
harvesting, milling for daily bread.
3 Father, providing food for thy children,
thy wisdom guiding teaches us share
one with another, so that rejoicing
with us, our brother may know thy care.
4 Then will thy blessing reach every people;
freely confessing thy gracious hand.
Where thy will reigneth no one will hunger;
thy love sustaineth; fruitful the land. Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Harvest Languages: English Tune Title: BUNESSAN
Praise and thanksgiving, Father, we offer
Sing to the Lord of harvest
Author: John Samuel Bewley Monsell, 1811-1875 Hymnal: CPWI2010 #720 (2010) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: 1 Sing to the Lord of harvest,
sing songs of love and praise;
with joyful hearts and voices
your hallelujahs raise.
By him the rolling seasons
in fruitful order move;
sing to the Lord of harvest
a happy song of love.
2 By him the clouds drop fatness,
the deserts bloom and spring,
the hills leap up in gladness,
the valleys laugh and sing.
He filleth with his fullness,
all things with large increase,
he crowns the year with goodness,
with plenty and with peace.
3 Bring now in glad thanksgiving
the gifts his goodness gave,
the golden sheaves of harvest,
the souls he died to save.
Your hearts lay down before him
when at his feet you fall,
and with your lives adore him
who gave his life for all.
Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Harvest Languages: English Tune Title: PEARSALL
Sing to the Lord of harvest
God of grace and God of nature
Author: William B. Braithwaite Hymnal: CPWI2010 #721 (2010) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D First Line: Thank you, Father, for the harvest Lyrics: 1 Thank you, Father, for the harvest,
for the seedtime and the rain;
thank you for the gathered bounty
of sun-ripened fruit and grain.
Refrain:
God of grace and God of nature,
heaven and earth your praises sing;
hear our songs of high thanksgiving,
now accept the gifts we bring.
2 You, who fill all life with beauty,
open wide your loving hand,
filling all the seas with fishes,
blessing all this fruitful land. [Refrain]
3 Since our crops by you protected,
have brought forth a richer yield,
we, your grateful children, offer
first fruits of the harvest field. [Refrain]
4 Thank you for the luscious fruitage –
pines, bananas, plums and pears,
coconuts and pomegranates –
distilled sweetness of the years. [Refrain]
5 Bless these tokens we now offer
in your holy church today;
may they help us to remember
your great love and care alway. [Refrain]
6 But we too are seeds of harvest
sown by God in fields of time;
borne at last by angel reapers,
may we reach the home sublime. [Refrain] Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Harvest Languages: English Tune Title: HYFRYDOL
God of grace and God of nature
The Sower went forth sowing
Author: William St. Hill Bourne, 1846-1929 Hymnal: CPWI2010 #722 (2010) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: 1 The Sower went forth sowing,
the seed in secret slept
through weeks of faith and patience,
till out the green blade crept;
and warmed by golden sunshine,
and fed by silver rain,
at last the fields were whitened
to harvest once again.
O praise the heavenly Sower,
who gave the fruitful seed,
and watched and watered duly,
and ripened for our need.
2 Behold! the heavenly Sower
goes forth with better seed,
the word of sure salvation,
with feet and hands that bleed;
here in his church ’tis scattered,
our spirits are the soil;
then let an ample fruitage
repay his pain and toil.
Oh, beauteous is the harvest
wherein all goodness thrives,
and this the true thanksgiving,
the first-fruits of our lives.
3 Within a hallowed acre
he sows yet other grain,
when peaceful earth receiveth
the dead he died to gain;
for though the growth be hidden,
we know that they shall rise;
yea even now they ripen
in sunny paradise.
O summer land of harvest,
O fields for ever white
with souls that wear Christ’s raiment,
with crowns of golden light!
4 One day the heavenly Sower
shall reap where he hath sown,
and come again rejoicing,
and with him bring his own;
and then the fan of judgement
shall winnow from his floor
the chaff into the furnace
that flameth evermore.
O holy, awful Reaper,
have mercy in the day,
thou puttest in thy sickle,
and cast us not away. Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Harvest Scripture: Matthew 13:3-9 Languages: English Tune Title: ST BEATRICE
The Sower went forth sowing
To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise
Author: William Chatterton Dix, 1837-1898 Hymnal: CPWI2010 #723 (2010) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1 To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise
in hymns of adoration,
to thee bring sacrifice of praise
with shouts of exultation:
bright robes of gold the fields adorn,
the hills with joy are ringing,
the valleys stand so thick with corn
that even they are singing.
2 And now, on this our festal day,
thy bounteous hand confessing,
upon thine altar, Lord, we lay
the first-fruits of thy blessing:
by thee the souls of men are fed
with gifts of grace supernal,
thou, who dost give us earthly bread,
give us the Bread Eternal.
3 We bear the burden of the day,
and often toil seems dreary;
but labour ends with sunset ray,
and rest comes for the weary:
may we, the angel-reaping o'er,
stand at the last accepted,
Christ's golden sheaves for evermore
to garners bright elected.
4 O blessèd is that land of God,
where saints abide for ever;
where golden fields spread far and broad,
where flows the crystal river:
the strains of all its holy throng
with ours today are blending;
thrice blessèd is that harvest-song
which never hath an ending. Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Harvest Scripture: Psalm 65:11 Languages: English Tune Title: GOLDEN SHEAVES
To thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise
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