God the Father! Whose Creation
VERSE 1
God the
Father! Whose creation
Gives to
flowers and fruits their birth,
Thou,
whose yearly operation
Brings
the hour of harvest mirth,
Here to
Thee we make oblation
Of the
August-gold of earth.
VERSE 2
God the
Word! the sun, maturing
With his
blessed ray the corn,
Spake of
Thee, O Sun enduring,
Thee, O
everlasting Morn!
Thee in
Whom our woes find curing
Thee
that liftest up our horn.
VERSE 3
God the
Holy Ghost! the showers
That
have fattened out the grain,
Types of
Thy celestial powers,
Symbols
of baptismal rain,
Shadowed
out the grace that dowers
All the
faithful of Thy train.
VERSE 4
When the
harvest of each nation
Severs
righteousness from sin,
And
archangel proclamation
Bids to
put the sickle in,
And each
age and generation
Sink to
woe, or glory win;
VERSE 5
Grant
that we, or young, or hoary,
Lengthened
be our span or brief,
Whatsoe’er
the life long story
Of our
joy or of our grief,
May be
garnered up in glory
As Thine
own elected sheaf.
VERSE 6
Laud to
Him to Whom supernal
Thrones
and virtues bend the knee;
Laud to
Him from Whom infernal
Powers
and dominations flee;
Laud to
Him the co-eternal
Paraclete,
forever be.
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