Laudes Domini ‎#906

906. Encouragement

1 It may not be our lot to wield
The sickle in the ripened field;
Nor ours to hear, on summer eves,
The reaper's song among the sheaves.

2 Yet ours the grateful service whence
Comes, day by day, the recompense;
The hope, the trust, the purpose stayed,
The fountain, and the noonday shade.

3 And were this life the utmost span,
The only end and aim of man,
Better the toil of fields like these
Than waking dream and slothful ease.

4 But life, though falling like our grain,
Like that revives and springs again;
And, early called, how blest are they
Who wait, in heaven, their harvest day!

Text Information

• First Line: It may not be our lot to wield
• Title: Encouragement
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1884
• Topic: Activity; Christians: Duties; Church: Work of; Little Things; Lukewarmness: For Souls; Missions; Missionaries; Seed-sowing; Self-Denial; Weary in well-doing
• Notes: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: LUTON
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: E♭ Major