Come, children, lift your voices

Come, children, lift your voices. Claudia Frances Hernaman* (1828-1898).   This harvest hymn was published in Hernaman’s Hymns for the Children of the Church (1878) (JJ, p. 514). It had three stanzas:  Come, children, lift your voices  And sing with us to-day, As to the Lord of Harvest  Our grateful vows we pay. We thank Thee, Lord, for sending  The gentle showers of rain, For summer suns that ripened  The fields of golden grain; We thank Thee that Thou givest  Nuts, apples, plums, and pears, And for each precious treasure  Which field and orchard bears.         Come, children, etc. Come, join our glad procession,  As onward still we move, Rejoicing in the tokens  Of God our Father’s...