Far and near the fields are teeming

Far and near the fields are teeming. James Oren Thompson* (1834-1917).  This was published in The Epworth Hymnal: containing standard hymns of the Church, songs for the Sunday School, songs for social services, songs for the home circle, songs for special occasions (New York, 1885) of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North. The use of the sheaves metaphor suggests that it owed a debt, as other hymns did, to ‘Bringing in the sheaves* by Knowles Shaw*, published in 1874. It had a refrain and three stanzas:   Refrain:   Lord, we pray Thee, send forth reapers. Hear us, while to Thee we cry;Send them now the sheaves to gather, Ere the harvest-time pass by.  The three stanzas...

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