{"slug": "bringing-in-the-sheaves", "title": "Bringing in the Sheaves", "first_line": "Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness", "index_first_line": "Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds", "author": "knowles-shaw", "author_date": "1874", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [12, 11, 12, 11], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Harvest", "Service", "Missions", "Heaven", "Perseverance"], "scripture": ["Psalm 126:5-6", "Galatians 6:9", "John 4:35-36"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "songs-of-joy-and-gladness-1885", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_evidence": "Knowles Shaw (1834-1878), 1874. Transcribed syllable by syllable, and with its punctuation, from the dated page image of Songs of Joy and Gladness, ed. W. McDonald, Joshua Gill, John R. Sweney & W. J. Kirkpatrick (Boston: McDonald, Gill & Co., 1885), no. 40, printed page 37 \u2014 archive.org songsofjoygladne00mcdo_0, image n40 \u2014 which is headed \"Bringing in the Sheaves.\" and credits the words on the staff as \"Words from 'Songs of Glory.'\" (a collection, not a person) with \"Music by Geo. A. Minor. By per.\" on the right. The lyric rows were read again on a second, independent scan of a different copy of the same 1885 printing (archive.org songsofjoygladne00mcdo, image n40); the two agree word for word and point for point. THE 1885 PLATE DOES NOT NAME THE AUTHOR, so the attribution to Knowles Shaw is taken from a second dated pre-1931 printing that does: Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 (New York: Biglow & Main; Cincinnati: John Church, 1894), no. 609, which engraves \"KNOWLES SHAW.\" on the left of the staff and \"GEORGE A. MINOR, by per.\" on the right (archive.org gospelhymnsnos1t0000unse_s2j5, image n612-n613). US public domain: the text was first published in 1874 and every witness read here is itself pre-1931; the author died in 1878, so it is also PD in life+70 jurisdictions. TEXT VARIANTS, stated because this encoding follows the 1885 plate and not the more familiar 1894 reading: the 1885 plate prints \"and the dew -- y eves;\" (PLURAL) where the 1894 plate prints \"dew -- y eve;\"; the 1885 plate prints stanza 3 line 1 as \"Go, then, ev -- er weeping, sowing for the Master,\" where the 1894 plate prints \"Go -- ing forth with weeping, sowing for the Master,\"; and the 1885 plate prints a lower-case \"he will bid us welcome\" where the 1894 plate capitalises \"He\". Punctuation is the 1885 plate's throughout, including the comma after \"noon -- tide,\" in stanza 1, the semicolons that end the second line of every stanza, and the apostrophes in \"Tho'\", \"sustain'd\", \"winter's\" and \"weeping's\". Nothing was modernised and no stanza was omitted: the plate prints exactly these three stanzas, all three sharing the fourth line \"We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.\" (the plate prints that line once, under the third system, for all three stanzas).", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Sow -- ing in the morn -- ing, sow -- ing seeds of kind -- ness, Sow -- ing in the noon -- tide, and the dew -- y eves; Wait -- ing for the har -- vest, and the time of reap -- ing, We shall come re -- joic -- ing, bring -- ing in the sheaves.", "prose": ["Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness,", "Sowing in the noontide, and the dewy eves;", "Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping,", "We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Sow -- ing in the sun -- shine, sow -- ing in the shad -- ows, Fear -- ing nei -- ther clouds nor win -- ter's chill -- ing breeze; By and by the har -- vest, and the la -- bor end -- ed, We shall come re -- joic -- ing, bring -- ing in the sheaves.", "prose": ["Sowing in the sunshine, sowing in the shadows,", "Fearing neither clouds nor winter's chilling breeze;", "By and by the harvest, and the labor ended,", "We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Go, then, ev -- er weep -- ing, sow -- ing for the Mas -- ter, Tho' the loss sus -- tain'd our spir -- it oft -- en grieves; When our weep -- ing's o -- ver, he will bid us wel -- come, We shall come re -- joic -- ing, bring -- ing in the sheaves.", "prose": ["Go, then, ever weeping, sowing for the Master,", "Tho' the loss sustain'd our spirit often grieves;", "When our weeping's over, he will bid us welcome,", "We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Bring -- ing in the sheaves, bring -- ing in the sheaves, We shall come re -- joic -- ing, bring -- ing in the sheaves. Bring -- ing in the sheaves, bring -- ing in the sheaves, We shall come re -- joic -- ing, bring -- ing in the sheaves.", "prose": ["Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,", "We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.", "Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,", "We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}