This Is the Field

This is the field

the world be­low

In which the sow­ers came to sow;

Jesus the wheat

Sa­tan the tares

For so the word of truth de­clares:

And soon the reap­ing time will come

And an­gels shout the har­vest home.

Most aw­ful truth! and is it so?

Must all the world that har­vest know?

Is ev­ery man the wheat or tare?

Me for the har­vest

Lord

pre­pare!

For soon the reap­ing time will come

And an­gels shout the har­vest home.

To love my sins—a saint to ap­pear

To grow with wheat—yet be a tare

May serve me while on earth be­low

Where tares and wheat to­ge­ther grow:

But soon the reap­ing time will come

And an­gels shout the har­vest home.

Then all who tru­ly right­eous be

Shall soon their Fa­ther’s king­dom see;

But tares in bun­dles shall be bound

And cast to hell—O dread­ful sound!

And soon the reap­ing time will come

And an­gels shout the har­vest home.