Fifth Sunday after Epiphany

Bounteous Blesser of the seed-time!
Sweet Refresher of the soil!
Great Ingatherer of the harvest!
For which all Thy people toil;
Thou Fount of every blessing
Showered daily from above.
Stoop to hear our hearts confessing
All their gladness in Thy love.

Blessed be the Hand that gave us
Thought and feeling, life and limb.
Blest His Heart Who died to save us.
Blessings evermore to Him!
Blest the tender love which makes us
Fit to serve Him as we ought,
Never leaves us, nor forsakes us,
Till into His garner brought.

With Thy dews and sunshine tend us
Through life's long and changeful year.
From the enemy defend us.
Lest the tares of sin appear;
Ever in Thy mercy sparing.
Watching late and waiting long.
And Thy judgment still forbearing
Lest Thy children suffer wrong.

Bounteous Blesser of the seed-time!
Sweet Refresher of the heart!
Great Ingatherer of the harvest!
O, how full of love Thou art!
Let Thine eye and hand the keepers
Of our souls for ever be.
Till Thine angel harvest-reapers
Life's full bundles bind for Thee.