Bible Songs — Missionary Songs

O Where are the Reapers?

O where are the reapers that garner in

No. 1248
Tune O WHERE ARE THE REAPERS?
Words Eben E. Rexford.
Music Geo. F. Root.
Key G major
Time 4/4
4 stanzas

Words

O where are the reapers that garner inThe sheaves of the good from the fields of sin?With sickles of truth must the work be done,And no one may rest till the "harvest home."

Chorus.

Where are the reapers? O who will comeAnd share in the glory of the "harvest home?"O, who will help us to garner inThe sheaves of good from the fields of sin?

Go out in the byways and search them all;The wheat may be there, though the weeds are tall;Then search in the highway, and pass none by;But gather from all for the home on high.

The fields all are ripening and far and wideThe world now is waiting the harvest tide:But reapers are few, and the work is great,And much will be lost should the harvest wait.

So come with your sickles ye sons of men,And gather together the golden grain;Toil on till the Lord of the harvest come,Then share ye his joy in the "harvest home."

About this hymn

As printed As printed: no running head on p. 466 (the page opens with the hymn); hymn number «1248» (large, left), title «O WHERE ARE THE REAPERS?» centred (condensed capitals and small capitals); on ONE line under it «EBEN E. REXFORD.» at the left (words), the epigraph «"Put ye in the sickle for the harvest is ripe."—Joel 3 : 13.» in the middle (old-style figures) and «GEO. F. ROOT.» at the right (music), the names in capitals and small capitals; «Moderato.» in italic over the first bar. No meter, no tune name other than the title and no reference line are printed. The four stanzas are interlinear, numbered «1.» «2.» «8.» «4.» (the third stanza's number is printed «8.», kept here as printed — see `uncertainties.md`), between the staves of systems 1–3; «CHORUS.» (bold capitals) stands over the last bar of system 3, and the chorus words are printed once — their first bar on the second line, after «high.» of stanza 2, the rest on one line under systems 4–5; the chorus is sung after every stanza. Under the music, centred: «By permission The John Church Co.». Each stanza is given here in its four verse lines (each printed line of words carries a verse line and a half, the lines break inside words: «wait- / ing», «to-geth- / er»), and the chorus in four lines. The words divided under the notes are joined here («reap - ers», «by - ways», «gar - ner», «gath - er», «to - geth- / er», «wait- / ing», «sick - les», «har - vest», «gold - en», «glo - ry», «high-way» → «reapers», «byways», …); the divisions are in `lyrics_syllables.txt`. The print sets a thin space before «?», «;» and «:» («sin ?», «all ;», «tide :»); it is closed up here; curly quotes are written straight. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's, including the wrong-font letter of «therc,» (stanza 2, line 2; printer's slip kept as printed — see `uncertainties.md`), «ye sons of men» without a comma before «ye», and the quotation marks round «harvest home».