Seed Time and Harvest

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Gentleness, kindness, patience

Author: Robert Walmsley
Tune: [Gentleness, kindness, patience]
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1 Gentleness, kindness, patience—
These are the seeds to sow,
Yielding a harvest greater,
Richer than we shall know.

Refrain:
Here and there keep sowing
Some little kindly deed;
Blessings beyond all measure
Grow from a single seed.

2 Sow in life’s early morning,
Noontide and ev’ning sow,
Long as the daylight lingers,
Sowing where’er we go. [Refrain]

3 Some among thorns may perish,
Some on the rocks decay,
Some in good soil will flourish;
Let us keep sowing away. [Refrain]

4 Bitterness, strife and envy—
Such are the seeds we see,
Growing in ground neglected,
Where the good seed should be. [Refrain]

5 Gentleness, kindness, patience—
These are the seeds we’ll sow,
Winning the world to goodness,
Banishing sin and woe. [Refrain]

Source: The Service of Praise #83

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Author: Robert Walmsley

Walmsley, Robert, was b. at Manchester March 18, 1831, went to Sale in 1870, where he was till 1904 in business as a jeweller, and d. at Sale Oct. 30, 1905. He was a Congregationalist, and was for 28 years connected with the work of the Manchester Sunday School Union, many of his hymns being written for the annual Whitweek Festival. He published 44 of them, with a preface dated Dec. 1900, as Sacred Songs for Children of all Ages. They are simple, musical, full of a deep love of God, of the works of God in nature, and of little children, and deserve to be more extensively used. The best-known of the longer hymns are:— 1. O praise our God to-day; Ye people haste to pay. [Praise to God.] Dated 1899, and included in his Sacred Songs, &… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Gentleness, kindness, patience
Title:	Seed Time and Harvest
Author:	Robert Walmsley
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Here and there keep sowing
Publication Date:	1900
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.