Sowing and Reaping (Fillmore)

Sowing the seed by night and by day

Sowing the seed in ma­ny a way

Reaping will come at some time

we know

Harvest will spring from what­ev­er we sow.

Be not de­ceived

God is not mocked.

Be not de­ceived

God is not mock­ed.

What a man sows that he al­so shall reap.

Sowing the seeds of flesh­ly de­lights

Sowing the seeds of base ap­pe­tites

Reaping will come

be­hold the waste field;

Utter de­struct­ion is all it will yield.

Sowing the seed of spir­it so pure

Sowing the seed of right­eous­ness sure;

Reaping will come

be­hold the glad store

Blessedness now

then the life ev­er­more.