Father, Blessing Every Seedtime
- Words:
- John S. B. Monsell
- Music:
- Sir Arthur S. Sullivan
Sheet music
- 1Father, blessing ev’ry seedtime,And refreshing all the soil,Ripening the gracious harvestFor which all Thy servants toil;O Thou source of ev’ry blessingShowered daily from above,Hearken to our lips confessingOur thanksgiving for Thy love.
- 2Here we bless Thy hand that gave usThought and feeling, life and limb;Bless Thy Son, Who died to save us,In our glad and joyous hymn;Bless Thy Spirit, who doth make usFit to worship as we ought;Father, leave not nor, forsake usTill into Thy garner brought.
- 3With Thy dews and sunshine tend usThru life’s long and changeful year;From the enemy defend us,Lest the tares of sin appear.Let Thine eye and hand the keepersOf our souls forever be,Till Thine angel harvest reapersSheaves of glory bind for Thee.Amen.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 9 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.