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Sang on the occasion of tlie address before the Essex Agri- 

 cultural Society, at their sixtietli annual exhibition, in Lynn, 

 September 20th, 1880. 



HARVEST HYMN. 



BY MISS MARCIA M. SELMAN. 



" And some an hundred fold." — On every side 



We see the witness of the writ! en Word 

 Amid the glad earth'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 fruitfulness 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. 

 Her altar mountain tops with incense blaze, 



The sacramental feast is spread to Thee, 

 Crowner of good and Aulhor of our days ! 



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