
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 100 hymnals Topics: Harvest and summer First Line: To praise the ever bounteous Lord Lyrics: 1 To praise the ever bounteous Lord,
My soul, wake all thy powers:
He calls, and at his voice come forth
The smiling harvest hours.
2 His covenant with the earth he keeps;
My tongue his goodness sing:
Summer and winter know their time,
His harvest crowns the spring.
3 Well pleas'd the toiling swains behold
The waving yellow crop:
With joy they bear the sheaves away,
And sow again in hope.
4 Thus teach me, gracious God, to sow
The seeds of righteousness:
Smile on, my soul, and with thy beams
The ripening harvest bless.
5 Then in the last great harvest, I
Shall reap a glorious crop:
The harvest shall be far exceed
What I have sow'd in hope.
Summer—an Harvest Hymn