Harvest Festival

This is the time, when from the fertile fields
The harvest of the year is gathered in;
When all the fruits that kindly autumn yields
Are safely stored ere winter’s frosts begin;
And men are bringing to the house of prayer
Their offerings of fruit and flowers and grain,
To celebrate God’s providential care,
And to adorn His Altar once again.
Come, then, ye patient tillers of the soil,
Whose lives are spent in hard and honest toil
And think of Him Who opens wide His hand
And scatters blessings freely o’er the land;
With the portals of His house appear,
And thank Him for the harvest of the year.

Poems of the Way
W.H. Pepworth