Harvest Fields | Thanksgiving | 1908 E. Smith

🍎🌾🍂[Lyrics below] This rather lovely thanksgiving song within the Christian tradition, with a musical score for two voices, was published in 1908: 207 in "The Eleanor Smith music course 4" by Eleanor Smith (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i.... The music is by Johann Rudolph Ahle, the text is by Unknown, but John Church Co. had the copyright back then.

Johann Rudolph (or Rudolf) Ahle (1625 –1673) was a German composer and organist. He was also the mayor of Mühlhausen. Much of Ahle's compositions are sacred choral and vocal works, instrumental music, and organ music. He is best known for motets and sacred concertos.

Here are the words, and I do not sing verse three (and the recording ended a bit abruptly):

Harvest fields with golden glow,
Laden branches bending low,
Crowded garners, closing year,
Sing Thanksgiving time is here.

Lord, we know not how to tell
All the thanks our hearts that swell;
Hearts that full of grateful cheer
Sing Thanksgiving time is here.

[All we have Oh Lord is Thine,
Unto Thee we all resign:
While thy children Father dear,
Sing Thanksgiving time is here.]

On each harvest and each home,
Let thy crowning blessing come;
Then shall we with voices clear
Sing Thanksgiving time is here.


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