{"slug": "sing-to-the-lord-of-harvest", "title": "Sing to the Lord of Harvest", "first_line": "Sing to the Lord of harvest", "author": "john-s-b-monsell", "author_date": "1866", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [7, 6, 7, 6], "doubled": true, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Harvest", "Thanksgiving", "Praise"], "scripture": ["Psalm 65:9-13", "Jeremiah 5:24"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "monsell-1866", "source_kind": "gutenberg", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "John S. B. Monsell (1811-1875), \"Sing to the Lord of harvest,\" a harvest hymn published in the second edition of his Hymns of Love and Praise (London, 1866), pp. 145-146, in four stanzas of eight lines under the epigraph Jeremiah 5:24 (Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, 1907). Text taken directly from the 1866 printing (archive.org scan hymnsloveandpra00monsgoog) and cross-checked against the Hymnary.org authority page, which prints a modernized three-stanza representative text; this file follows the 1866 original wording throughout \u2014 \"Your hallelujahs raise,\" \"By Him the clouds drop fatness,\" \"He crowns the year with goodness,\" \"Heap on His sacred altar,\" and the doxology stanza 4. Victorian mid-line capitals (Love, Praise, Goodness, Plenty, Peace, Altar) lowercased and punctuation lightly normalized; wording unaltered. Scansion verified 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 in all four stanzas. All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Sing to the Lord of har -- vest! Sing songs of love and praise! With joy -- ful hearts and voic -- es your hal -- le -- lu -- jahs raise: By Him the roll -- ing sea -- sons in fruit -- ful or -- der move, sing to the Lord of har -- vest a song of hap -- py love!", "prose": ["Sing to the Lord of harvest!", "Sing songs of love and praise!", "With joyful hearts and voices", "your hallelujahs raise:", "By Him the rolling seasons", "in fruitful order move,", "sing to the Lord of harvest", "a song of happy love!"]}, "2": {"syllabified": "By Him the clouds drop fat -- ness, the des -- erts bloom and spring, the hills leap up in glad -- ness, the val -- leys laugh and sing: He fill -- eth with His ful -- ness all things with large in -- crease, He crowns the year with good -- ness, with plen -- ty and with peace.", "prose": ["By Him the clouds drop fatness,", "the deserts bloom and spring,", "the hills leap up in gladness,", "the valleys laugh and sing:", "He filleth with His fulness", "all things with large increase,", "He crowns the year with goodness,", "with plenty and with peace."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Heap on His sa -- cred al -- tar the gifts His good -- ness gave, the gold -- en sheaves of har -- vest, the souls He died to save: your hearts lay down be -- fore Him when at His feet ye fall, and with your lives a -- dore Him who gave His life for all.", "prose": ["Heap on His sacred altar", "the gifts His goodness gave,", "the golden sheaves of harvest,", "the souls He died to save:", "your hearts lay down before Him", "when at His feet ye fall,", "and with your lives adore Him", "who gave His life for all."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "To God the gra -- cious Fa -- ther, who made us \"ver -- y good,\" to Christ, who, when we wan -- dered, re -- stored us with His blood, and to the Ho -- ly Spir -- it, who doth up -- on us pour His bless -- ed dews and sun -- shine, be praise for ev -- er -- more!", "prose": ["To God the gracious Father,", "who made us \"very good,\"", "to Christ, who, when we wandered,", "restored us with His blood,", "and to the Holy Spirit,", "who doth upon us pour", "His blessed dews and sunshine,", "be praise for evermore!"]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}