by Greville Phillimore (1821 - 1884)
Song for Harvest Season
Language: English
Summer ended, harvest o'er, Lord, to Thee our [song]1 we pour, For the [valley's]2 [golden yield]3, For the fruits of tree and field; For the promise ever sure That while heaven and earth endure Seed-time, harvest, cold and heat Shall their yearly round complete; For the care, which while we slept, Watch o'er field and furrow kept, Watch o'er all the buried grain, Soon to burst to life again. When the reaping angels bring, Tares and wheat before the King, Jesus! may we gathered be In the heavenly barn to Thee. Then the angel cry shall sound: Praise the Lamb: the lost are found! And the answering song shall be: Alleluia, praise to Thee! Praise to Thee! the toil is o'er; Blight and curse shall be no more; Lo! the mighty work is done: Glory to the Three in One!
C. Ives sets stanzas 1-2
1 Ives: "songs"
2 Ives: "valleys"
3 omitted by Ives
Authorship:
- by Greville Phillimore (1821 - 1884) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Song for Harvest Season", subtitle: "Stanza from an Old Hymn", S. 356 (1893?), stanzas 1-2 [voice, cornet, trombone, and bass, or organ], fugue in four keys [ sung text checked 2 times]
Research team for this page: T. P. (Peter) Perrin , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2004-06-20
Line count: 24
Word count: 140