The Home Circle by Marianne Farningham

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1879

The Home Circle.

By Marianne Farningham

INGATHERING.

Praise for the joy of the harvest weather! The sunny days and the star-lit nights Are making all things glad together, In the golden time of the year's delights, When many a heavily-laden wain Is bearing homeward the gathered grain.

Men's hearts are reading the old, old story Of God's great goodness to all the earth, Written again in the Summer glory And sung in measures of joyous mirth; He heeded the prayer that His children said, And gives them richly the daily bread.

So the cheery sights of the rapid reaping By busy hands in the harvest-field, The watchful care of the laborers, heaping The wealth of life which the grain-stalks yield, The gleaners who follow the stubbed way Are themes of rejoicing through all the day.

So shall the world in its Summer beauty Of silvered river, and shady wood, Urged by its thankfulness, love and duty, Join in the anthem, "The Lord is good. And men and maidens and children bring Their tribute song to the heavenly King.

Praise for the joy of the harvest weather! Praise for the sheaves of the golden corn! Praise for the flowers that laugh together, For the rest of night, and the light of morn! Praise for the love that is over all, And the God who hears when His children call! —Marianne Farningham.