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Bringing Home Our Sheaves
Author: Elizabeth Akers, 19th Century Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: The time for toil is past and night has come Used With Tune: [The time for toil is past and night has come]
Bringing Home Our Sheaves
BRINGING HOME OUR SHEAVES
Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. S. Rupp Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 11232 32165 11234 Used With Text: The time for toil is past, and night has come
BRINGING HOME OUR SHEAVES
Bringing Our Sheaves With Us
Author: Elizabeth Anne Chase Taylor Akers Allen Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8427 First Line: The time for toil is past, and night has come Lyrics: 1 The time for toil is past, and night has come,
The last and saddest of the harvest eves;
Worn out with labor long and wearisome,
Drooping and faint, the reapers hasten home,
Each laden with his sheaves,
Each laden with his sheaves.
2 Last of the laborers, Thy feet I gain,
Lord of the Harvest! and my spirit grieves
That I am burdened not so much with grain,
As with a heaviness of heart and brain;
Master, behold my sheaves!
Master, behold my sheaves!
3 Few, light, and worthless—yet their trifling weight
Through all my frame a weary aching leaves;
For long I struggled with my hapless fate,
And stayed and toiled till it was dark and late,
Yet these are all my sheaves,
Yet these are all my sheaves.
4 Full well I know I have more tares than wheat,
Brambles and flowers, dry stalks, and withered leaves;
Wherefore I blush and weep, as at Thy feet
I kneel down reverently, and repeat
"Master, behold my sheaves,"
"Master, behold my sheaves!"
5 I know these blossoms, clustering heavily
With evening dew upon their folded leaves,
Can claim no value nor utility;
Therefore shall fragrancy and beauty be
The glory of my sheaves,
The glory of my sheaves.
6 So do I gather strength and hope anew;
For well I know Thy patient love perceives
Not what I did, but what I strove to do;
And, though the full, ripe ears be sadly few,
Thou will accept my sheaves,
Thou will accept my sheaves. Languages: English Tune Title: [The time for toil is past, and night has come]
Bringing Our Sheaves With Us
The time for toil is past, and night has come
Author: Elizabeth Akers Hymnal: Hymns and Tunes #385 (1890) Scripture: Psalm 126:6 Languages: English Tune Title: BRINGING HOME OUR SHEAVES
The time for toil is past, and night has come
The Time for Toil
Author: Elizabeth Akers Hymnal: The Christian Hymnary #542 (1972) Meter: 10.10.10.9.6.6 First Line: The time for toil is past, and night has come Lyrics: 1 The time for toil is past, and night has come,
The last and saddest of the harvest eves;
Worn out with labor long and wearisome,
Drooping and faint, the reapers hasten home,
Each laden with his sheaves,
Each laden with his sheaves.
2 Few, light, and worthless—yet their trifling weight
Thro' all my frame a weary aching leaves;
For long I struggled with my hapless fate,
And staid and toiled till it was dark and late,
Yet these are all my sheaves,
Yet these are all my sheaves.
3 Full well I know I have more tares than wheat,
Brambles and flow'rs, dry stalks and withered leaves;
Wherefore I blush and weep, as at thy feet
I kneel down reverently, and repeat,
"Master, behold my sheaves,"
"Master, behold my sheaves."
4 So do I gather hope and strength anew;
For well I know thy patient love perceives
Not what I did, but what I strove to do—
And though the full ripe ears be sadly few,
Thou wilt accept my sheaves,
Thou wilt accept my sheaves. Topics: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; Commission Reward for Labor Scripture: Psalm 126:6 Languages: English Tune Title: BRINGING HOME OUR SHEAVES
The Time for Toil
Henry S. Rupp
1827 - 1898 Person Name: Henry S. Rupp, 1826-1898 Composer of "BRINGING HOME OUR SHEAVES" in The Christian Hymnary Rupp, Henry S. (Near Shiremanstown, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, 1827?--January 14, 1898). Ordained as deacon January 17, 1878 and served the Slate Hill congregation.
Additional family history is available in the file on Rupp.
--DNAH Archives
Henry S. Rupp
Elizabeth Akers Allen
1832 - 1911 Person Name: Elizabeth Akers Author of "The time for toil is past, and night has come" in Hymns and Tunes Allen, Elizabeth (Chase) Akers. (Strong, Maine, October 9, 1832-August 7, 1911, Tuckahow, NY). Daughter of Thomas and Mercy Barton Chase. Married Marshall Taylor (1851-1857), Paul Akers (1860-1861), and Elijah M. Allen (1865-1911). Attended Farmington (Maine) Academy (later Maine State Teachers College). Taught briefly. Associate editor in Portland, Maine, of the Transcript (1855-1859) and the Daily Advertiser (1863-1865) and volunteer worker among the hospitalized soldiers. Contribute of essays, letters, and poems to various newspapers and magazines (chiefly the Atlantic Monthly) from her fifteenth year on, using the pseudonym "Florence Percy" for the first few years. Published her poems in book form from time to time. Allen was one of the favorite household poets of her time, but is now remembered chiefly for one poem, "Rock me to sleep, mother," first published in 1860. Its well-known opening lines are:
Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight,
Make me a child again just for tonight.
-Anastasia Van Burkalow, DNAH Archives
Elizabeth Akers Allen
