Supplement

“When the harvest is past.”

When the harvest is past, and the summer is gone;

p. 14
Key C minor
Singing key A minor
Time 3/4
2 stanzas

Words

When the harvest is past, and the summer is gone;And warnings and prayers shall be o'er;When the beams cease to break of the sweet Sabbath mornAnd Jesus invites thee no more;When the rich gales of mercy no longer shall blow,The gospel no message declare;Sinner, how can'st thou bear the deep wailings of woe;How suffer the night of despair.

When the holy have gone to the regions of peace,Those heavenly mansions to prove ;When their harmony wakes in the fulness of bliss,Their song to the Saviour they love;Say, O Sinner, that livest at rest and secure,Who fearest no trouble to come,Can thy spirit the swellings of sorrow endureOr bear the impenitent's doom!

About this hymn

As printed Millennial Harp (1843), Supplement («SUPPLEMENT TO THE HARP.»), printed pp. 14–15 (PDF 306–307). Two staves (treble with two voices, almost always two heads on one stem, and the words printed under it; bass); C minor (three flats), 3/4. The first strain (to «o'er :») ends with a repeat and is sung twice — the two braced lines under it are lines 1–2 and 3–4 of the stanza. The last line of the stanza is sung twice at the end of the music. Below the music on p. 15 the book prints a scripture line and then stanzas 1 and 2 in full.