HARVEST-HYMN. 109 



IIARVEST-UYMN. 



[Sung on the occasion of the addrecs before the Essex Agricultural Society, at 

 their sixtieth annual exhibition, in Lynn, Sept. 20, 1880.] 



BY MISS MARCIA M. SELMAN. 



" And some au hundred-fold." — On every side 



We see the witness of the written Word 

 Amid tlie glad eartli's harvest-time, and lift 



Our hearts in praise to thee, Creation's Lord. 



The seed that grew — we knew not how — beneath 



The ministry of air and sky and soil 

 But shaped in glowing type thine endless love, 



Thy benediction on man's year of toil. 



Oh, thus within our lives the hope enlarge 

 Of bounteous store for all the seed we sow! 



Give it the increase from thy day and night, 

 Alike from summer sun and winter snow. 



Thou art Creator ; but a Father's care 



The golden autumn's fruitfulncss supplies : 



Man is creator only where his hand 



Works by thy law, and on thy truth relies. 



Fair Nature lights thy shrines within her woods; 



Iler altar mountain-tops with incense blaze; 

 The sacramental feast is spread to thee, 



Crowner of good, and Author of our days. 



