Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 72 · Songs for the Church Year · Page 100 in print
Harvest Thanksgiving
Henry Alford’s harvest hymn turns from gathering crops to a spiritual harvest, using wheat, weeds, and a storehouse as images.
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The words
Breezes
The moving air that accompanies growth.
Claudius
Matthias Claudius, the German author.
Garner
The storehouse in its final stanzas.
Grain
The crop nourished by warmth and rain.
Hampden Gurney
John Hampden Gurney, writer of hymn 290.
Harvest-Home
The celebration named in its opening.
Henry Alford
The author credited for the harvest hymn.
Jane Campbell
The hymn’s English translator.
Pastures
The grazing land watered in hymn 291.
Plough
The tool and work named in the opening.
Reapers
The harvest workers pictured in his hymn.
Seed-Time
The season of sowing named in the final stanza.
Sheaves
The gathered bundles of grain used as an image in hymn 292.
Tares
The weeds growing with that crop.
Wheat
The good crop in its spiritual harvest image.