Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Thanksgiving Day/Thanksgiving Hymn

by Jason Elmer Hammond

THANKSGIVING HYMN.

(Air—"America.")

O thou, whose eye of love
  Looks on us from above
Low at thy throne
We come to thee and pray
That, gleaning clay by day.
Our grateful hearts alway
  Thy hand may own.

Thine are the waving fields,
Thy hand the harness yields;
  And unto thee
To whom for rain and dew.
And skies of sunny blue,
Our love and praise are due,
  We bend the knee.
 
And when beneath the trees
In fairer fields than these
  Our glad feet roam,
There where the bright harps ring,
May we our gleanings bring,
And in thy presence sing
  Our harvest home.

—From Song Budget.