Text: | Heap High the Farmer's Wintry Hoard |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 |
Tune: | LAND OF REST |
Arranger: | Annabel Morris Buchanan, 1899-1983 |
Harmonizer: | Charles H. Webb, 1933- |
1 Heap high the farmer’s wintry hoard!
Heap high the golden corn!
No richer gift has autumn poured
from out the lavish horn!
2 Through vales of grass and meads of flowers our plows their furrows made,
while on the hills the sun and showers
of changeful April played.
3 We dropped the long, bright days of June beneath the sun of May,
and frightened from our sprouting grain
the robber crows away.
4 All through the long, bright days of June its leaves grew green and fair,
and waved in hot mid-summer’s noon
its soft and yellow hair.
5 And now, with autumn’s moonlit eyes, its harvest time has come,
we pluck away the frosted leaves
and bear the treasure home.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! |
Title: | Heap High the Farmer's Wintry Hoard |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 |
Meter: | C.M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Transcending Mystery and Wonder: Harvest and Thanksgiving |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LAND OF REST |
Arranger: | Annabel Morris Buchanan, 1899-1983 |
Harmonizer: | Charles H. Webb, 1933- |
Meter: | C.M. |
Key: | F Major or modal |
Source: | American folk melody |
Copyright: | Arr. © 1938, renewed 1966 J. Fischer & Bros. Co.; Harm. © 1989 J. Fischer & Bros. Co. |