Reapers' Refrain

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Lo! the dawn is rising

Author: Mrs. E. W. Chapman
Tune: [Lo! the dawn is rising]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Lo! the dawn is rising
O’er the eastern hills,
And the wild-bird singing,
Every heart enthrills.

Refrain:
See, the ripened fields are teeming;
Hear the reaper’s glad refrain;
Ringing loud and clear the music,
Waking echoes o’er the plain.

2 Melodies they’re chanting
As the brightness glows;
Fair the flow’rs are blooming,
Sweetest fragrance flows. [Refrain]

3 Brilliant is the beauty
Of the joyous morn;
Reapers hail the gleaming
Of the golden corn. [Refrain]

Source: Fair as the Morning. Hymns and Tunes for Praise in the Sunday-School #34

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Author: Mrs. E. W. Chapman

Anzentia Igene (Angie) Perry Chapman, 1849-1889. Born near Lansing, MI, Angie was the wife of Free Methodist minister, Edwin W. Chapman. They had three children. She helped on his evangelism tours and rural preaching circuits. They worked in Sparta, MI, and helped found the first Free Methodist church in Grand Rapids, MI. She also wrote hymn lyrics. In 1888 they followed an evangelistic tour of Kansas, and them moved to Isabella County, MI. She died in Mt. Pleasant, MI. John Perry Go to person page >

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First Line:	Lo! the dawn is rising
Title:	Reapers' Refrain
Author:	Mrs. E. W. Chapman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	See, the ripened fields are teeming
Copyright:	Public Domain